In Normandy, 1944, the Panzer IV and the M4 Sherman faced off in a clash of design philosophies—quality versus quantity. We break down how the German Panzer IV, with its superior armor and firepower, ...
The term “Panzer” refers to a series of German tanks, the Panzer I through Panzer IV early in the war, followed by heavier combatants such as the Panther and Tiger Early Panzer IIIs carried 37–50mm ...
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 ...
What starts as a simple patch of mixed signals—two coins with holes, American buttons, and the rotten remains of a German ...
Key point: Tank-destroyers also taught the Army not to over-specialize. There was no need for multiple classes of tanks that were strong in one respect and weak in another. During the 1940s, the U.S.
The Bundeswehr's newly formed Panzerbataillon (Armour Battalion) 363 has received the first four of its future 44 Leopard 2A6 main battle tanks (MBTs), the German Army announced on its website on 7 ...
STUTTGART, Germany – For the first time in more than 20 years, at precisely 4 p.m. on July 4th, the Panzer Kaserne gates in Böblingen opened to the local German community. The local community poured ...
I will never, ever, say no to a group made up of two dudes from Accept (guitarist Herman Frank and drummer Stefan Schwarzmann) and one dude from Destruction (bassist/vocalist Schmier), even if I ...