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Tigers Triumphant at Villers-Bocage
By Michael E. HaskewOn D-day, June 6, 1944, the British 3rd Infantry Division was the first to land on Sword Beach. Read more
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Clash of Heavy Tanks at Cologne
By Christopher MiskimonSergeant Nicholas Mashlonik watched closely as the Panzerkampfwagen (PzKpfw) VI Tiger heavy tank rampaged through the village of Elsdorf in the Rhineland-Westphalia region of Germany on February 27, 1945. Read more
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Villers-Bocage: Wittmann’s Tigers, the Desert Rats, and Allied Disaster
By Major General Michael ReynoldsBritish General Sir Bernard Montgomery was given command of two Allied armies for the invasion of Normandy: Lt. Read more
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M26 Pershing: Why America’s Heavy Tank Arrived Too Late for WWII
By Arnold Blumberg“We had been assured by our officers before we invaded France in 1944,” recorded Bill Harris, “that our Sherman tanks could take care of any Nazi armor we met there.” Read more
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Bovington Tank Museum
By Ray StevensonIf armored vehicles are your interest, the Tank Museum at Bovington Camp, Dorset, is your holy grail. This cavernous museum, measuring 50,000 square feet, holds the world’s finest and most comprehensive collection of over 250 armored vehicles from 26 countries. Read more
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M4 Sherman: “Blunder” or “Wonder” Weapon?
By Blaine TaylorFor the Allied tankers and infantrymen of the American, British, Canadian, and Free French armies battling German Panther and Tiger tanks in Normandy in the summer of 1944, the Sherman tank’s failures were glaringly evident as their own shells bounced off the hulls of the Nazi armor and they were themselves destroyed at a far greater range by the powerful German tanks. Read more
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Six-Pounder Versus Panzer
By Christopher MiskimonSergeant Charles Callistan looked through the sights of an antitank gun at an approaching enemy tank. His weapon, a six-pounder cannon, was in the perimeter of a surrounded British outpost named Snipe. Read more
