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 ...

Germany’s armored forces grew from small Panzer II units to some of the most feared tanks of the war. Innovation pushed ...

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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 ...

The scholar has published ‘Brothers in Arms,’ tracking the campaign of a British armored regiment throughout World War II ...

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 ...

BERLIN (AP) — 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.