The Panzer IV Ausf H was also fitted with a long-barreled L/48 gun, which was considered at least as effective as the 76.2mm (three-inch) main armament of the Soviet T-34.

At Prokhorovka on July 12, 1943, steel thundered across the fields in what became one of history’s largest armored clashes. Amid the chaos of over 1,200 tanks colliding near the Kursk salient, SS ...