The Firefly was the few Allied tanks present at Normandy that had enough power to penetrate the notoriously thick German Tiger I tank's armor. The Firefly was primarily used by Britain and Canada ...

This week marks 80 years since Sgt Baskeyfield's death, but in his native Stoke-on-Trent his valiant sacrifice is still ...

Dickie Attenborough’s all-star film of the Allies’ great folly went to great lengths to do right by history. But he had a ...

How a new piece of music, written especially in honour of King Charles this year, came to be named after a piece of North Kilkenny is curious. In fact, it is named after a famous battle tank that in ...

The design and deployment of tanks during World War II played an important part in the outcomes of many battles. One of the ...

The Soviets wanted to over-awe NATO opponents on the battlefield with a “super tank.” Think of the intimidation factor of the huge German Tiger tank in World War Two. Other Soviet armor such ...

The fuel tank is beautiful ... Unfortunately, the Tiger 80 was a short-lived bike: A German air raid took out the Coventry, U.K. factory in 1940, destroying most of the company's records and ...

The stated target was a Tiger tank factory," Linda said ... "And so he contacted this German, who was now a historian, and asked if the Germans would be interested in collaborating," Linda ...

These are the best World War II movies of the past eight decades, according to a Military.com survey of U.S. service members ...

Finally, you can tell people the goddamned truth, which is that from an engineering point of view, German tanks ... out cheap crappy tanks like tin cans to overwhelm the Tiger.

"s PzAbt") was a battalion-sized World War II tank unit of the German Army (1935–1945), equipped with Tiger I, and later Tiger II, heavy tanks. Originally intended to fight on the offensive during ...