Here’s What You Need to Remember: The B1s were very tough—flat-out invulnerable to the 20-milimeter gun on the Wehrmacht’s most numerous tank, the Panzer II. At five o’clock in the morning on May 16, ...
Here’s What You Need to Remember: France will of course go down in history for being defeated by tanks in World War II, but it was not due to lacking tanks—the French army fielded nearly 4,000 tanks ...
King Tigers in Ogledow One of the most memorable tank engagements of the second world war occurred towards the end of the Lvov-Sandomierz offensive in Poland, between the 501st Heavy Panzer Battalion ...
On June 13, 1944, in the French town of Villers-Bocage near Normandy, a German Tiger tank from the 2nd Company of the 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion lay in wait. Commanded by Lieutenant Michael ...
The Bundeswehr is forming Panzerbrigade 42, composed of Panzerbataillon 203 equipped with the Leopard 2 tank (pictured) and Panzergrenadierbataillon 122 with the Puma IFV. (Bundeswehr/Mario Bähr) The ...