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 concentrate more ...
On June 22, 1944, exactly three years after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, 2.4 million Red Army soldiers launched ...
At the beginning of World War 2, when Germans arrived in France after taking over Poland, the Wehrmacht’s Panzer divisions shook the world to its core. The panzer division was much more than just a ...
Raus was one of the Wehrmacht's most accomplished generals, and his memoirs are a welcome addition to the literature on World War II. Raus entered Russia in June 1941 as a brigade commander in Germany ...
FARGO — In the early years of World War II, the most feared German battalions were those that had Panzer (tank) divisions. During the latter 1930s and 1940, the Germans employed what was called the ...
Key Point: Nazi prowess and technological might have been greatly exaggerated. When over 1.5 million German soldiers poured over the Polish border on September 1, 1939 in an Operation codenamed Fall ...
Although a few different Army branches have laid claim to the roots of armored cavalry, no other location did more to shape its dominance than Fort Knox, and at no other time than World War II. In the ...
Dive into the riveting and brutal story of Kurt "Panzer Meyer," the notorious SS commander who led the Hitlerjugend division during the Battles of Normandy in World War II. This comprehensive ...