Back to the southern salient
During the night of 4–5 July SS combat engineers had infiltrated no-man's land and cleared lanes through the Soviet minefields. At dawn the three divisions of II SS Panzer Corps – 1st, 2nd and 3rd SS Panzer Divisions- moved to attack General Ivan Christiakov's 6th Guards Army defenses. Using a special "Panzer Keil" formation, at the point of the wedge were the heavy Tigers,...
