The Panzer tank family was at the heart of German operations throughout World War 2. The term “Panzer” refers to a series of ...

World War II was tank-heavy, as both the Allied and Axis powers fielded thousands of the behemoths. Tanks fought from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the fields of France and deserts of North Africa, ...

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 ...

Roy Elliott with the first Tiger Tank to be captured intact. Now at Bovington Tank Museum, Dorset Mr Roy Elliott served 4 1/2 years in the 8th Army in North Africa as a driver mechanic in the REME ...

During WWII, the Panzer V Panther emerged as one of Germany’s most effective tank designs—offering a strong mix of firepower, ...

BERLIN – 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. Carius died at home in western Germany Jan. 24 ...

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As tank-destroyers were drawn increasingly into infantry support roles that exposed them to artillery and infantry fire, their crews piled sandbags on top of them in order to detonate Panzerfaust anti ...