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 ...

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.

These armored vehicles were designed to destroy tanks ... its later variants) continued serving on the front lines until the war's end. Other countries also acquired StuGs after World War II ...

On a cold, gray day in early January 1945, a train rolled out of Lima laden, like many trains in the three years previous and ...

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 ...

(This is the country that mobilized the most troops during World War II. Tanks and artillery played instrumental roles in the Battle of the Bulge as each side lost more than 800 tanks.

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 ...

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 ...