Throughout World War 2 the one tank above all else that would strike fear into the heart of Allied soldiers was the Tiger Tank. After the failure of Operation Lüttich - the German counter attack into ...

So when the highly-decorated Waf-fen-SS tank ace met his death in the Normandy countryside in August 1944, several Allied units claimed the distinction of having killed him.

The problem was that by the time the King Tiger made its combat debut in Normandy in July 1944, the necessities that Nazi Germany most lacked was trained, experienced tank crews and fuel and ...

Dr Tout was a gunner in a Sherman tank in the 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry. He arrived in France seven days after D-Day in June 1944 and took part in some of the fiercest fighting in Normandy ...

On June 6, 1944, he rode his Sherman tank, called "Caribou," ashore on D-Day and a day later he recorded his first success, destroying a Panzer IV. Mr. Radley-Walters – then known to his ...

TWO German Tiger tank drivers and their British counterparts met for the first time 72 years after they fought on opposite sides in the Second World War.