September 1941. While most remember the Tigers and Panthers, one lone Panzer 3 and its crew faced an impossible choice—fall ...

Introduced by Germany in 1944, the Jagdpanzer 38(t), commonly known as the Hetzer, was a compact tank destroyer built on the ...

Initially, Hitler dismissed the landings as a feint. Eventually, at 4 p.m. that afternoon, Hitler released two divisions of Panzer Group West, the 12th SS and Panzer Lehr, for deployment to the coast.

A German Panzer Mk. II sits in a tank museum. Tankers didn't want to get caught in this small beast, but it split the job of gunner and commander, giving a tactical advantage and setting the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The tank-destroyer force was the Army’s response to the wild successes of German armor in Poland and France in 1939 and 1940. Panzer divisions would ...

Burriss ended up stumbling head-on with a 15,000-man German Panzer Corps. That did not stop him from going straight to German unit's leader.

During the 1940s, the U.S. Army developed a special weapon to counter the tanks of the German Wehrmacht. Most of these vehicles had the hull of a Sherman tank and a turret with a long-barrel cannon.

Allied tanks and artillery clashed with German Panzer tanks and other vehicles for more than a month in the Ardennes Forest.

The M4 Sherman arrived in Europe armed with the 75 mm gun M3, which could defeat 88 mm of armor at a range of 100 meters and 73 mm at 1,000 meters. While this could defeat the Panzer IV's 80 mm of ...

Otto Carius, a World War II German panzer ace credited with destroying more than 150 enemy tanks, mostly on the Eastern Front, has died at 92.