On December 19, 1944, a small force of American tankers and paratroopers made a desperate stand in the Belgian village of Noville against the advancing German Second Panzer Division during the Battle ...

On September 13, 1944, a newly formed German Panzer brigade entered the area around Dompaire expecting to regroup before ...

The Panzer tank family was at the heart of German operations throughout World War 2. The term “Panzer” refers to a series of German tanks, the Panzer I through Panzer IV early in the war, followed by ...

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 than a hundred tanks on a narrow ...

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.