Equipment remnants linked to a German Panzer Division were recovered at an Eastern Front battlefield dating to the final Soviet offensives of 1944–45. Armored formations that once formed the core of ...

What began as a relic hunt on the former Eastern Front quickly turned into evidence of a rushed and chaotic German withdrawal in the war’s final days. An SS vehicle plate, weapons, communications gear ...

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 ...

One of the perennial debates among military historians and armchair generals revolves around Adolf Hitler's decision to directly control the disposition of the Panzer units in northern France in the ...

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 ...

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.