Zwieroboj - Animal Hunters - Ponyri Station, Kursk, 7th July 1943 by David Pentland. (C) NRG1056DHM1597C. Zwieroboj Animal Hunters Ponyri Station, Kursk, 7th July 1943 by David Pentland. Major Sankovsky, commander of the new SU 152 battery of 1442nd SP Art Regiment, assigned to the 13th Army was in support of the 307th Rifle Division around Ponyri Station when the XXXXI Panzer Corp attacked with 200 panzers. Leading the way were Tiger Is of Schwere Panzer Abteilung 505, and the Borgward BIV remote control mine clearance tanks. On this day it is
Flt Lt Bob Lasham DFC*
000 troops under Marshal Andre Massena to relieve the fortress
12th Lancers
The French were able to withdraw in order
Crew of EY-M :
The target was the German ship Gneisenau which was berthed at Brest
147th Engineers Battalion
Squadron Leader L F W Stark DFC* AFC C de G (Belg) (deceased)
the lone spitfire of Squadron Leader Sandy Johnstone breaks the ranks and picks off one of the menacing Heinkels only to encounter an equally determined attack from a BF109
one of three American Eagle squadrons within the Royal Air Force
just 2 km outside the heavily defended harbour of Alexandria
Though 200 Allied aircraft were destroyed