On the 5th of July the SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) began it's attack on the southern face of the Kursk salient. The objective of the division was to capture the town of Prokhorovka. Among the initial targets of the offensive was Hill 220.5. The positions in front of LSSAH were held by the 6th Guards Army commanded by Lieutenant-General I.Chistyakov . At 03:15 hours German artillery unleashed a bombardment of the Russian positions in front of LSSAH that lasted for 50 minutes. Quarter of an hour after the bombardment started Hill 220.5 was further soften by a 15 minute attack by Stuka divebombers. At 4:05 LSSAH began it's assault on the hill, which was lead by the 13th Heavy Tank Company equipped with Tiger Ausf E tanks. Among the tank commanders of the 13th Company was Micheal Wittman who is credited with destroying 13 T34s and two antitank guns during the fighting on the 5th. The 13th Company was joined in it's assault by the 1st and 2nd Panzer Grenadier Regiments. By 11:45 the hill had fallen to LSSAH and the division moved on to capture further objectives. At the end of the day's fightning the LSSAH had lost two Tiger tanks and 97 personnel killed and 522 wounded but had destroyed 15 T-34 tanks.
In the days following the capture of Hill 220 the division pushed further towards Prokhorovka until it met with a fierce counterattack near the villiage of Swch. Oktyabrski on the 12th of July. At the end of operation Citadel on the 13th of July the LSSAH had lost 2,279 wounded, 474 dead and had lost almost a third of its Panzers,