![]() ![]() The 1 st Panzergruppe was a component of Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt’s Heeresgruppe 'Süd', and had as its initial task within the primary objective of taking Kiev, capital of Ukraine, the seizure and retention of crossings over the Bug river and the advance to Rovno and Korosten. ![]() The 'Battle of Brody' was one of the most intense armoured engagements in the opening phase of the German 'Barbarossa' invasion of the USSR, Poor Soviet logistics, German air supremacy and a total breakdown of Soviet command and control capability ensured a huge German victory. ![]() ![]() Although the Soviets inflicted heavy losses on the German forces, their numerically superior but technically and tactically inferior forces were outmanoeuvred by the Germans and suffered enormous losses in tanks. The 'Battle of Brody' was classified by the Soviets as one of the 'Ukrainian Border Defensive Battles Operation'. The 'Battle of Brody' was the battle involving by far the largest number of tanks, exceeding the often-quoted but erroneous total for the 'Battle of Prokhorovka' of July 1943. Muzychenko’s 6 th Army in the triangle whose apices were the towns of Dubno, Lutsk and Brody (23/30 June 1941). Potapov’s 5 th Army and General Leytenant Ivan N. The 'Battle of Brody', which is also known as the 'Battle of Dubna', the 'Battle of Dubno', the 'Battle of Rovne' and the 'Battle of Rovne-Brody', was a major armoured battle fought between the German forces of Generaloberst Ewald von Kleist’s 1 st Panzergruppe's III Corps (mot.) and XLVIII Corps (mot.), commanded by General Eberhard von Mackensen and General Werner Kempf respectively, and the Soviet forces of five mechanised corps of General Major Mikhail I. ![]()
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