The center of the line (Camp Hill) was held by the cavalry supported by two guns.
The German attack was supported by 12 guns which devastated the British battery.
Supported by 500 guns, 50 divisions attacked on the narrow front between Gorizia and the sea.
The 1st Battalion, supported by five StuG assault guns, two 37mm guns and an Engineer Company were to serve as the main effort.
The total force available for the immediate defence of the British base at Balaclava numbered around 4,500 men, supported by 26 guns.
Supported by almost a hundred tanks and 430 guns, the 40th attacked into the woods of Bourlon Ridge on the morning of the 23rd.
Cevat Pasha's Eighth Army of 10,000 soldiers, was supported by 157 guns.
There, 14,000 well entrenched infantry, supported by 32 guns in six batteries, repulsed repeated Confederate attacks with substantial casualties.
The Soviet armies earmarked for the operation represented a powerful force of 1,286,000 men and 2,400 tanks supported by 26,400 guns and 3,000 aircraft.
The total Soviet troops now engaged in Operation Kutuzov numbered 1,286,049 men supported by 2,409 tanks and 26,379 guns.