{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Summer, 1943 plans: Season 3 opener, Episode 51","description":"(Originally posted 22 June 2024)\n\nThree seasons! 51 episodes!\n\nThis season begins with a catch-up on the Eastern Front, and the planning that led to the biggest battle in the history of warfare: Operation Zitadelle and the Battle of Kursk.\n\nMap: The Kursk salient, spring 1943\n\n\n\nSource: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk)\n\nProduction and loss tables\n\nTable 1: Comparative armaments production, January 1941 – December 1942\n\n 1941 1942  GermanyUSSRGermany USSRRifles1,359.0002,421,0001,370,0004,049,000Machine guns96,000149,000117,000356,000Artillery3,80041,00041,000128,000Tanks + self-propelled guns8,4006,6006,20024,700Combat aircraft 12,40011,60021,700\n\n\n\nGerman and Soviet war production. 1942–1944 (thousands of units)\n\n 1942 1943 1944  GermanyUSSRGermanyUSSRGermanyUSSRRIfles + submachine guns1,6024,6192,5094,8013,0853,006Machine guns117356263458509439Artillery4112874130148122Tanks + self-propelled guns62411241829Combat aircraft122219303433\n\n\n\nSoviet tank and self-propelled gun losses\n\n 19411942194319441945Tanks and self-propelled guns available28,20035,70047,90059,10048,900Losses     Heavy tanks9001,2001,300900900Medium tanks2,3006,60014,70013,8007,500Light tanks17,3007,2006,4002,300300Self-propelled guns01001,1006,8005,000\n\nSource: Mawdsley, Thunder in the East, 2016\n\nImages:\n\nThe German Tiger tank,Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger Ausf. E\n\nTiger tank in Kharkiv, 1943\n\nThe German Panther tank, Panzerkampfwagen V Panther\n\n\n\n\n\nSource: Wikipedia.\n\nSources:\n\nAntony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012.\n\nEvan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.\n\nAnthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017\n\nWikipedia: The Battle of Kursk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panther_tank) .\n\nHosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.\n\nHosted on Ausha. See https://ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.","author_name":"Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5173732-beyond-barbarossa-the-eastern-front-of-world-war-2","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43762471/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}