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Originally Posted by Torplexed

Wow. An entire infantry regiment wiped out to the last man with nukes and none of the millions of other German and Russian soldiers and airmen crowded in the Kursk salient bothers to look up and notice the resulting blinding fireball or write down an account in a unit or field dairy or take a picture of the mushroom cloud. Rather odd considering all the eyewitness accounts from miles around of the secret US "Trinity" a-bomb test in a then sparsely populated section of New Mexico. I guess the Germans were more obsessed with getting the Panther tank over it's teething problems at Kursk than with their rather successful nuclear weapon debut.