RE: Hard Attack,Soft Attack
The book is "Panzertruppen... " or "Panzer truppen..." by Thomas Jentz. I founded that lots of WWII books quotes this book.
And Ricky B is right. According to book PzIV/43 were shipped to suthern divisions preparing for new offensive. Southern divisions were brought to 3 battalion strength in panzer regiments, while north divisions remained with 1-2 battalion. Every southern division was issued with 12 or 4 new PzIV tanks.
However, numers quoted are for begging of fall Blau, not for the Kharkov battle. Jentz mentioned that 23.Pz.div was provided with 12 pzIV/43, but only 6 arrived before May 12th. You may conclude that 2 were knocked out.
milicko
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