     KURSK - I  July 5, 1943
    On the left wing of the 4th
Panzer Army, south of the Kursk
bulge, lay the German XLVIII Panzer
Korps.  Its center unit was the
"Gross Deutschland" PanzerGrenadier
Division, the best trained and
equipped unit in the German Army. 
Its initial objective was to break
through three Russian defensive
lines held by the 67th Guards Rifle
Division reinforced with two
regiments of antitank guns, and
capture the town of Cherkasskoye.