Tanks forward! (Blitzkrieg - Second World War in Fight, First Edition, No. 35)

June 22, 1941 marked the beginning of the German Wehrmacht’s attack on the Soviet Union. Operation “Barbarossa” was launched with massive artillery and air raids on a front line more than 1,600 kilometres in length. The Wehrmacht entered Russian territory with an unprecedented force of 3.25 million soldiers, some 3,500 tanks and 2,700 fighter planes. The German units were divided into three Army G...