it was here, near kursk, that one of the most successful pilots of world war ii, ivan kazhedub, shothis first plane. the tank battle on the prokhorovsky field lasted all day. from point-blank shots the turret collapsed , the guns twisted , the armor burst, the tanks exploded, we lost the sense of time, we felt neither thirst, nor heat, nor even blows in the cramped cabin of the tank, one thought, one desire, while alive, beat the enemy, parukharsky the battle is a terrible picture, that is, smoke. after the prokhorovka, the germans retreated to their starting points. positions and did not make any attacks until the end of the battle. according to the soviet command, in just one day, july 12 , german troops lost about 300 tanks under fire. these losses meant the final collapse of operation citadel. the germans simply could not advance further. this is a selection on the german part, this is the second ss panzer corps, hauser, this is the head of the division , dosrai, great germany, this is the ss selected divisions, which we stopped, and we lost, yes, a huge number of tanks, 500, but