This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. The Panzer tank family was at the heart of German ...
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 ...
Active, self-propelled tank-destroyer battalions were judged to have killed 34 tanks each on average, and about half as many guns and pillboxes. Some units, such as the 601st, reported more than 100 ...
It’s July 2, 1941 - near Dünaburg, Latvia - and a Soviet field kitchen cook named Ivan Pavlovich Sereda is peeling potatoes ...
In a slight fog, at 6:20 on the morning of Nov. 20, 1917, the tank entered modern warfare. At that moment 378 steel monsters rolled toward the German lines on the Cambrai front. The armored vehicles, ...
The Polish cavalrymen were eager to enter combat. They were armed with rifles, sabres, and lances. The memories of the Winged Hussars that expelled the Turkish invaders from Europe in the late 1600s ...
Glancing down at Columbus Street Terminal this past weekend, motorists crossing the Ravenel Bridge might have thought the Holy City was in the midst of a German invasion. Turns out, the World War ...
US Army infantrymen pass a shattered German tank during a counterattack at Kasserine Pass, February 1943.Corbis via Getty Images In February 1943, US troops were soundly defeated in a days-long battle ...
LAKEWOOD, Ohio -- It was the fall of 1943. Helga Meta Else Hingst, my future mother, was 13 years old and surviving in the city of her birth, Berlin, Germany. Her older uncle, Herbert Zeyssig, was ...