Next year, humankind would be commemorating 80 years since the start of the biggest global conflict the world has ever seen. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany forces invaded Poland from the West, ...
For "White Tiger" director Karen Shakhnazarov, Captain Ahab was a scrawny Soviet tank driver and his Moby Dick was a dusty Nazi tank. Shakhnazarov said he wove Herman Melville's classic whale tale ...
Glancing down at Columbus Street Terminal this past weekend, motorists crossing the Ravenel Bridge might have thought the Holy City was in the midst of a German invasion. Turns out, the World War ...
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 concentrate more than a hundred tanks on a narrow ...
Throughout World War 2 the one tank above all else that would strike fear into the heart of Allied soldiers was the Tiger Tank. After the failure of Operation Lüttich - the German counter attack into ...
The tank was introduced in World War I when Britain unveiled the then-secret weapon against German forces and were able to run these rolling fortresses right over German barbed wire and trenches, ...
The Allied invasion of Europe in June of 1944 saw troops embark on a campaign aimed at the very heart of Germany. The dense hedgerows of Normandy took longer to fight through than expected. Still, by ...
On July 12, 1943, the battlefield near Prokhorovka erupted into one of the most violent armored clashes of World War II. German Tiger tanks and elite SS Panzer units advanced to meet massive Soviet ...