Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kurth / Wikimedia Commons (Kurth / Wikimedia Commons) The Panzer tank family was at the heart of German operations throughout ...

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 ...

JIMMY Graham, who has died aged 98, was an RAF veteran who saw distinguished service in Bomber Command during the Second World War. He flew on 36 hazardous missions as a tail gunner with 576 Squadron ...

On December 19, 1944, Major William Desobry and his 400 men faced overwhelming odds as the German 2nd Panzer Division advanced on the Belgian village of Noville. Vastly outnumbered and pressed by ...

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.

Kurt “Panzer” Meyer was one of the youngest divisional commanders of World War II, leading the 12th SS Panzer Division “Hitlerjugend” in Normandy. Captured after the war, he was convicted for the ...

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 ...