Airfix 1/35 Tiger 1 Early Version Operation Citadel A1354Following their disastrous defeat at Stalingrad during the winter of 1942 43, the German armed forces launched a major offensive in the East known as Operation Citadel on July 4th, 1943. The climax of Operation Citadel, the Battle of Kursk, involved as many as 6,000 tanks, 4,000 aircraft and 2 million fighting men and is remembered as the greatest tank battle in history. The peak of the battle was the massive armour engagement at Prochorovka, which