re: #213 Kragar

Fun Fact: The Luftwaffe bombing campaign to soften up Kursk spent most of their effort bombing decoys. Hundreds of thousands of women and children set up fake targets for weeks before the battle. Most of what the Germans bombed was nothing more than logs and black paint.

Another Fun Fact: Kursk also marked the operational debut of the PzKpfw V, aka the Panther, which had been developed from experience fighting the T-34 on the Eastern Front. Of course, in a sign of things to come, the first two unloaded from their transports were immediately written off as loses when their engines caught fire.