On April 24, 1943, on the sun-swept steppes of Tunisia, men of the 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters hunker in trenches under ...
For "White Tiger" director Karen Shakhnazarov, Captain Ahab was a scrawny Soviet tank driver and his Moby Dick was a dusty Nazi tank. Shakhnazarov said he wove Herman Melville's classic whale tale ...
The scholar has published ‘Brothers in Arms,’ tracking the campaign of a British armored regiment throughout World War II ...
As tank-destroyers were drawn increasingly into infantry support roles that exposed them to artillery and infantry fire, their crews piled sandbags on top of them in order to detonate Panzerfaust anti ...
The Allied invasion of Europe in June of 1944 saw troops embark on a campaign aimed at the very heart of Germany. The dense hedgerows of Normandy took longer to fight through than expected. Still, by ...
Roy Elliott with the first Tiger Tank to be captured intact. Now at Bovington Tank Museum, Dorset Mr Roy Elliott served 4 1/2 years in the 8th Army in North Africa as a driver mechanic in the REME ...
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 ...
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 ...