Near Hannut in May 1940, German panzer divisions fought the French Cavalry Corps in a three-day clash involving roughly 1,200 ...

At higher echelons, battalion and division-level comparisons reveal contrasts in logistics, unit composition, and strategic ...

Museum staff has said the recent uncovering of a live bullet inside a World War Two tank "stopped us in our tracks". The ...

On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the ...

American soldiers dug foxholes into the ridgeline at Djebel Chambi. They had only arrived in North Africa a few weeks ago and faced light resistance from Vichy French troops. The infamous Afrika Korps ...

IN HIS speech of October 3, 1941, Hitler, as he looked into the future, remarked, ‘There is only the problem of transportation.’ The statement might have been even more pertinent had he added the two ...

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 ...

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 directory of the West German government lists no Defense Ministry. But for four years, the equivalent of a small Defense Ministry has been working in Bonn, hidden discreetly behind the dirty red ...

In Normandy British intelligence officers translated the captured report of a German Panzer division commander, written for the information of a commander moving in to replace him. Excerpt: “The enemy ...