The Allied invasion of Europe in June of 1944 saw troops embark on a campaign aimed at the very heart of Germany. The dense hedgerows of Normandy took longer to fight through than expected. Still, by ...

Seventy years ago, on July 12, Soviet soldiers managed to wreak havoc on the German forces’ morale in the Battle of the Prokhorovka, a very important moment of the battle of the Kursk and the largest ...

In honor of Christmas, we proudly publish the text of Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe's 1944 Christmas letter to the U.S. 101st ...

Eighty years ago today, German artillery opened fire on an inexperienced American division that had been at the front for ...

At dawn on July 12, 1943, the fields near Prokhorovka erupted as nearly 500 Soviet tanks surged into battle against Germany’s elite SS Panzer Corps. The order—“Steel, Steel, Steel”—signaled a ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The lumbering Char B1 didn’t really suit the Heer’s style of high-speed armored warfare. However, a victorious Germany decided to employ more than 161 captured Char ...

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One of the perennial debates among military historians and armchair generals revolves around Adolf Hitler's decision to directly control the disposition of the Panzer units in northern France in the ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The B1s were very tough—flat-out invulnerable to the 20-milimeter gun on the Wehrmacht’s most numerous tank, the Panzer II. Panzer III, 38t and IV tanks only had a ...

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