Pilot Officer Leonard Cheshire suddenly felt his aircraft rocked by a series of violent explosions that caused a severe fire to break out in the fuselage
after a gallant resistance of over a week
the UK realized a moral obligation to send supplies to the USSR
Two REME soldiers are pulling out the tow-rope (which is made of metal cables) and will attach this to the stranded vehicle
Long Nose Trouble by Stan Stokes
Clash of Steel, Prokhorovka, Kursk, 12th July 1943 by David Pentland. (C) SIG970 Pilot Officer Leonard Cheshire suddenlyDHM1022C. Clash of Steel, Prokhorovka, Kursk, 12th July 1943 by David Pentland. The battle for Prokhorovka marked the high water mark of the German southern drive for Kursk. At the apex of the thrust were the 14 tiger tanks of the 13 Heavy Tank Company, 1st SS Panzer Division Liebstandarte, led by Michael Wittman. Their advance was eventually thwarted, however, by the epic charge of the Soviet 29th Guards Tank Corps, as part of 5th Guards Tank Armys