Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kurth / Wikimedia Commons (Kurth / Wikimedia Commons) The Panzer tank family was at the heart of German operations throughout ...

The term “Panzer” refers to a series of German tanks, the Panzer I through Panzer IV early in the war, followed by heavier combatants such as the Panther and Tiger Early Panzer IIIs carried 37–50mm ...

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 ...

We tend to impose narratives on history, seizing on compelling legends and streamlining complex events into a convenient and rousing story. Thus first act of World War II is often told as a story of ...

The tank was introduced in World War I when Britain unveiled the then-secret weapon against German forces and were able to run these rolling fortresses right over German barbed wire and trenches, ...

At five o’clock in the morning on May 16, 1940 a company of the 8th Panzer Regiment lay in an ambush position along a rubble-strewn street of the French town of Stonne. The day before, the unfortunate ...

STUTTGART, Germany – For the first time in more than 20 years, at precisely 4 p.m. on July 4th, the Panzer Kaserne gates in Böblingen opened to the local German community. The local community poured ...

BERLIN – Otto Carius, a World War II German panzer ace credited with destroying more than 150 enemy tanks, mostly on the Eastern Front, has died at 92. Carius died at home in western Germany Jan. 24 ...

After the setback at Kasserine Pass, U.S. forces faced a critical test in Tunisia. Near El Guettar, a German Panzer attack ...

STUTTGART, Germany - Ten soldiers from the German military, the Bundeswehr, earned U.S. Army Marksmanship Qualification Badges at Panzer Kaserne in Böblingen Oct. 18, while strengthening ...