In the freezing depths of early 1943, the Eastern Front was on the brink of collapse. Soviet offensives had shattered the German lines, threatening to encircle entire armies. Amid this chaos, the ...

Major David Vivian Currie of the Canadian South Alberta Regiment led 200 men and a dozen M4 Sherman tanks into the town of St ...

But while Burriss recounted his exploits in vivid detail in his gripping 2000 memoir Strike And Hold, one stands out: his singlehanded capture of an entire German Panzer division in April 1945.

During the 1940s, the U.S. Army developed a special weapon to counter the tanks of the German Wehrmacht. Most of these vehicles had the hull of a Sherman tank and a turret with a long-barrel ...

Days later, they were ordered to attack a German Panzer division, which was trying to flee. ... Jack Tueller flew 144 combat missions over Germany in World War II.

In Germany, Hitler's Panzer tank force had proven its worth on European soil since its introduction to the war in 1939. Bigger, faster and more powerful than Allied tanks, few could stand up to ...