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 Panzer IV began as a support tank but evolved into the backbone of Germany’s armored forces. As Allied armor improved, ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: This is where Mark’s narrative begins to break down. It’s not his fault — it’s simply harder to keep track of what happened given the chaos. The shock of the Soviet ...

On the night of July 11, 1943, Soviet commanders ordered a dawn assault near Prokhorovka with hundreds of T-34s and light tanks aimed at crushing the German II SS Panzer Corps. On paper the Red Army ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...