Germany had a hugely successful range of assault guns, tank destroyers, and tank hunters, which were developed during the Second World War. As the war progressed, the German Army had to find a use for ...
Here’s What You Need To Know: The shortcomings of U.S. tank destroyers are clear. During the 1940s, the U.S. Army developed a special weapon to counter the tanks of the German Wehrmacht. Most of these ...
The Normandy hedgerows were a death trap for tanks—a perfect killing ground for hidden German anti-tank guns. But the U.S.
Here’s What You Need to Remember: Tank-destroyers were pretty much just tanks with inferior armor and better guns. Contrary to doctrine, commanders in the field asked them to perform most of the same ...
In a slight fog, at 6:20 on the morning of Nov. 20, 1917, the tank entered modern warfare. At that moment 378 steel monsters rolled toward the German lines on the Cambrai front. The armored vehicles, ...