Introduced in the late 1930s, the Panzer III became the backbone of Germany’s armored forces during the early years of World War II. It was one of the first tanks to feature torsion-bar suspension and ...

In March 1943, the U.S Army was on a critical mission - to prove it had learned from its bitter defeat at Kasserine Pass. East of the Tunisian town of El Guettar, the 1st Infantry Division , better ...

World War II’s Strangest Battle: ... Yet when the units of the veteran 17th Waffen-SS Panzer Grenadier Division ... 13th century Castle Itter was the only time in WWII that American and German ...

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.

Seventy years ago today, 200,000 German soldiers and 1,000 tanks went across a 75-mile stretch of land in Belgium, Luxemburg and France, catching off guard four divisions of the U.S. Army.