CREATED: 1993 – 96 by TDI. Available on CD ROM from CAA for the March 1996 version of the database.
REVISIONS: Since March 1996, TDI has independently proofed and revised the database.
DESCRIPTION: Tracks personnel strengths and losses, equipment strength and losses by type, unit locations, logistics, etc. for every division-sized unit for every day of the German Offensive against the southern salient at Kursk (Battle of Kursk) from 4 July 1943 to 18 July 1943.
SIZE: Entire database, including supporting programs, is 19.931 Megabytes in 256 files. Covers 1,065 Division Days of Combat. Includes 17 German Divisions, 37 Soviet Rifle Divisions, 10 Tank and Mechanized Corps, 6 Tank Brigades and attachments.
NUMBER OF FILES: 8 (Unit Data; Unit Inventory; Unit Location; Air; TOE; Weapons; Reference; Bibliography.)
NUMBER OF RECORDS PER FILE:
- Unit Data: 4,639
- Unit Inventory: 4,729
- Unit Location: 1,455
- Air: 753
- TOE: 206
- Weapons: 218
- Reference: 98
- Bibliography: 94
TOTAL NUMBER OF RECORDS: 12,189
LANGUAGE: Dbase IV
OWNERSHIP: US Army Concepts Analysis Agency (Public Domain) for March 1996 version. The Dupuy Institute for post-March 1996 version
PROGRAM MANAGER: Christopher A. Lawrence
PRIMARY WORKERS:
- Richard C. Anderson (Soviet Unit Location, Soviet Logistics, Soviet TOE)
- Dr. Richard Harrison (Soviet Unit Data and Unit Inventory, Russian Translations)
- L. Jay Karamales (German Unit Location, German Translations, programming)
- Christopher A. Lawrence (German research, German Unit Data and Unit Inventory, German TOE, German Air)
- Russian research team (Soviet research)
- Dr. Arthur Volz (German research)
USED FOR:
1. The KDB was used by CAA for the ongoing Kursk Validation Effort.
2. Impact of banning anti-personnel mines study
3. DuWar Database revisions were developed from the KDB.
4. TDI is currently contracted to write a book Kursk: The Battle of Prokhorovka by Chris Lawrence.
5. TDI currently under contract to write a chapter on medical care at Kursk.
6. The Naval Post-Graduate School is using the KDB to test Lanchester equations.
NOTES: This is the second largest historical combat database ever created. Data drawn almost entirely from German and Soviet unit records. The TDI version of the database periodically receives minor corrections and edits.
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