Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kurth / Wikimedia Commons (Kurth / Wikimedia Commons) The Panzer tank family was at the heart of German operations throughout ...

This video chronicles the extraordinary one-day clash at Dompaire in 1944, where French forces, led by the Free French 2nd Armored Division under General Leclerc, destroyed over 60 German Panzers. It ...

The Panzer IV began as a support tank but evolved into the backbone of Germany’s armored forces. As Allied armor improved, ...

Key point: Tank-destroyers also taught the Army not to over-specialize. There was no need for multiple classes of tanks that were strong in one respect and weak in another. During the 1940s, the U.S.

In a slight fog, at 6:20 on the morning of Nov. 20, 1917, the tank entered modern warfare. At that moment 378 steel monsters rolled toward the German lines on the Cambrai front. The armored vehicles, ...

I enjoyed Tony Blankley’s column “France blackmails Poland” [Op-Ed, Wednesday]. He is right that Poland was the first country to fight Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Indeed, it resisted harder than many ...

Active, self-propelled tank-destroyer battalions were judged to have killed 34 tanks each on average, and about half as many guns and pillboxes. Some units, such as the 601st, reported more than 100 ...