In the spring of 1944, as the Soviet Red Army pushed westward, the Germans found themselves fighting a desperate retreat, ...

The German Tiger I tank was a battlefield terror,heavily armored and armed with a deadly 88mm gun, it outclassed nearly every ...

The Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger tank was a German heavy tank that served on the Eastern Front, ... Tiger tanks killed 11.52 tanks for every one of their own destroyed in battle.

Built on a Tiger II chassis, sporting an enormous 12.8 cm cannon and holding the distinction of being the heaviest armored vehicle to serve in World War II, weighing in at 72.5 tons battle ...

The largest tank battle in history , the Battle of Kursk, involved an estimated 10,613 tanks — 3,253 German tanks and 7,360 Soviet Union tanks. This conflict turned the tide on the eastern front.

The battle saw over 600 Soviet tanks from the 5th Guards Tank Army smash head on into around 300 German tanks from the II SS-Panzer Corps. The fighting was some of the most intense in the history ...

Jim Morgia remembers the bitter cold and the three German tiger tanks his unit destroyed, saving the inhabitants of a nearby town. Lou Celentano remembers his anti-tank gun firing 125 shells in an ...

German Tiger heavy tanks in the Battle of Kursk. The rugged T-34 tank was no doubt an impressive Soviet invention, the backbone of the Red Army.

Tanks have been a feature of warfare since September 15, 1916, when a British Mk. I heavy tank lurched toward German positions at the Battle of Flers Courcelette, during the Somme offensive of ...

The Battle of the Valley of Tears was fought in the Golan Heights, the area between Syria and Israel, during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Of Syria’s 1,400 tanks, about 400 were T-62s, state-of ...