When German forces invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, their Panzer units expected another rapid victory. Instead they encountered the Soviet T-34, a tank whose sloped armor, mobility and powerful gun ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: What it lacked in firepower, it made up for in numbers and speed, where groups of Panzer IIs could encircle enemy units. Its development began before Germany had ...

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 ...

Next year, humankind would be commemorating 80 years since the start of the biggest global conflict the world has ever seen. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany forces invaded Poland from the West, ...

BERLIN – 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. 24 ...

The Panzer IV and the T-34 were not just two famous tanks. They were the backbone of German and Soviet armored warfare, meeting again and again in the biggest battles of the Eastern Front. This ...