Key point: These tanks were nigh impenetrable, but they couldn’t save France. At five o’clock in the morning on May 16, 1940 a company of the 8th Panzer Regiment lay in an ambush position along a ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Though tanks debuted in battle the year before, it was in ...

As Soviet forces pushed into Romania in early 1944, German armored units were thrown into desperate defensive battles. This video draws on the memoirs of Panzer IV gunner Bruno Friesen to explore what ...

The ‘Wermacht’s’ side employed four Panzer IV tanks, two Panzer III tanks, a Panzer VI tank, a Sturmgeschutz self-propelled gun, armored vehicles and two Messershmitt Bf-109E aircraft. The audience ...