![]() ![]() ![]() The Battle of Brody pitted the German 1st Panzer Group against six concentrated Soviet Mechanized Corps drawn from the 5th Army to the North and the 6th Army to the South. It is disputed as to actual losses – India claims to have lost just 29 tanks, while Pakistan has said its military destroyed some 120 Indian tanks – but after Indian forces were repulsed, a United Nations Security Council resolution called for an unconditional ceasefire from both nations, which effectively ended the brief war but not until after the largest tank battle in Asia had already taken place.įought in the opening days of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union from June 23 to June 30, 1941, this has been seen as the greatest armored engagement in history with as many as 5,000 tanks engaged, and it resulted in the destruction of a significant number of the Red Army's operational tank force. Largely inconclusive, it still involved some 50,000 Pakistani troops and around 150 tanks against an Indian force of upwards of 150,000 men and some 260 tanks. One of the largest tank engagements since the Second World War, the Battle of Chawinda was fought between India and Pakistan from September 14 to September 19, 1965. The Germans would go on to lose an entire army at the Battle of Stalingrad, which was also well underway, but it could be argued that the true turning point of World War II was at El Alamein. While the Allies suffered high causalities and lost upwards of half their tanks, more than half the Axis force was killed, wounded, or captured and nearly the entire German/Italian tank forces were destroyed in the battle. Fought from October 23 to November 11, 1942, and with nearly 200,000 Allied troops and more than 1,000 tanks against 116,000 Axis soldiers and more than 500 tanks, it was the largest desert battle in history. Supported by its allies, the British Eighth Army stopped the German advance and turned the tide in North Africa. If the Battle of Britain was the RAF's "finest hour" then the Second Battle of El Alamein was certainly the British Army's greatest moment of the Second World War. ![]()
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