 Complete the following phrase:  The 3rd Army also took part in the Battle of Smolensk, where German troops captured the city in a difficult two-month campaign, and the Battle of Moscow, in which the Red Armys winter counter-attack led by Marshal Georgy Zhukov drove back Army Group Center over away from Moscow. During the second half of the Eastern Front, the 3rd Army took part in the Battle of Kursk, where numerically superior Soviet forces, using anti-tank defenses, defeated the German forces, thus stopping Operation Zitadelle and robbing the German Army of all hopes of victory on the Eastern Front. The 3rd Army took part in the Bryansk, GomelRechitsa, and Rogachev-Zhlobin Offensives. During the final phases of the war, the 3rd Army took part in 