The use of tanks in World War II was so prominent that at one point ... were equipped with a short-barrelled 75mm KwK 24 gun. The later models had a Stuk 40 gun that utilized a longer barrel ...

Later, in World War II, tanks were not primitive ... The ultimate intent is to use overwhelming force in just the right places, causing a great wave of momentum. September 1, 1939, saw the ...

Inside a German WW2 ... German tank destroyer of WWII. The German Jagdpanther armoured vehicle was proposed in October 1942 and Adolf Hitler inspected a prototype some fourteen months later.

This tank was fitted with the 5TDF engine which tried to copy a German wartime bomber engine. 2-3,000 T-64s in storage will never return to service. The T-14 Armata used a Russian copy of the German X ...

Contact her at cara.tabachnick@cbsinteractive.com Authorities have identified the remains of a World War II tank ... leave the tank, but he still wasn't found several days later.

"The surviving crew bailed out of the tank, but when they regrouped later were unable to remove Walker from the tank due to heavy fighting," it added. In April 1945 the US War Department issued a ...

But there were others who hoped that, with the introduction of the latest generation of tanks such as the Tiger ... the north had stalled and, a week later, efforts in the south came to an end ...

A World War Two tank driver remembers having to a get a tow because his tank's battery was flat when he heard news of the end of the war in Europe. "I thought: What the hell am I doing here'?" ...

MONS, Belgium — Some 200 World War II military vehicles rolled through ... soldiers helped free it from Nazi occupation. The annual Tanks in Town event honored the Americans and Belgian ...