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How Germany Perfected Its First True Medium Tank

The Panzer IV was originally conceived in the mid-1930s as a support tank, intended to assist other Panzers rather than lead ...
Panzer IV: Nazi Germany’s Most Powerful Tank Ever? While not built in the numbers of the American M3 Sherman or Soviet Red Army T-34, the German PzKpfw IV, more commonly known as the Panzer IV, was ...
Next year, humankind would be commemorating 80 years since the start of the biggest global conflict the world has ever seen. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany forces invaded Poland from the West, ...
Tanks were first invented in World War I, where they were envisioned as invincible land ships that could break the stalemate of trench warfare and lead to victory. Technological shortcomings meant ...
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 ...
The most common American armored vehicle during World War II was the M4 Sherman. It was a good tank with decent armor and firepower capable of facing contemporary tanks like the German Panzer III and ...