As Soviet forces pushed into Romania in early 1944, German armored units were thrown into desperate defensive battles. This ...
Key point: These tanks were nigh impenetrable, but they couldn’t save France. At five o’clock in the morning on May 16, 1940 a company of the 8th Panzer Regiment lay in an ambush position along a ...
On July 12, 1943, hundreds of tanks collided near Prokhorovka during the Battle of Kursk. As Soviet T-34s surged forward, SS ...
The conflicts on the Eastern Front of World War II were bloody and brutal. By 1943, the German army had lost millions of soldiers in Russia and resorted to using aging conscripts from World War I and ...