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 ...

Moffatt Burriss, but the Army veteran’s stories of valor and heroism during World War II were the stuff every ... his singlehanded capture of an entire German Panzer division in April 1945.

The question is, would a different deployment of the Panzer ... Panzer Division near Caen. It played a critical role in thwarting the Anglo-Canadian attack on the town, and allowed German ...

BOUNTIFUL — A World War II veteran from Bountiful counts on the ... Days later, they were ordered to attack a German Panzer division, which was trying to flee. As they flew in low, Tueller's ...