The StuG III, or Sturmgeschütz III, was the most produced German armored fighting vehicle in WWII. It could penetrate the front armor of tanks like the KV-1. The powerful tank destroyer and its ...

But what makes the M18 Hellcat one of the best tank destroyers of World War II is that it had the highest kill-loss ratio of ...

Voris, who died in 2005 at the age of 85, arrived at this history-making assignment with impeccable credentials after ...

This section examines the evolution of the IBCT through some of its historical precedents: battle cruiser, tank destroyers, World War II Cavalry Groups of World War II, and the 2 nd Armored Cavalry ...

Baskind went missing in 1944 while scouting a route for his company of tank destroyers ... of thousands of unidentified American troops from WWII that the Pentagon is still working to account ...

With the Battle of Midway raging in the Pacific in June 1942, Japanese forces 2,500 miles to the north were seizing control ...

Though he was peppered by shrapnel and severely burned after a kamikaze pilot slammed into his ship, Lt. Richard McCool Jr.

The Allied and Axis forces lost thousands of ships during World War II, and many of those vessels ... one light cruiser, and 11 destroyers steamed toward their position. A battle commenced in ...

The Roosevelt administration came up with the straight trade concept, and in September 1940, Roosevelt signed the Destroyers-for-bases Agreement. This gave 50 US naval destroyers - generally ...

He served in the 661st Tank Destroyer Battalion as a radio operator ... While in Torgau celebrating the WWII 50th anniversary of the American and Russian forces coming together at the Elbe River, ...

American industry provided almost two-thirds of all the Allied military equipment produced during the war: 297,000 aircraft, 193,000 artillery pieces, 86,000 tanks ... World War II utterly ...