Active, self-propelled tank-destroyer battalions were judged to have killed 34 tanks each on average, and about half as many guns and pillboxes. Some units, such as the 601st, reported more than 100 ...

Allied crews noticed it first. Torpedoes that twisted, turned, and hunted ships in ways no one had seen before. Germany had ...

The German 88mm flak gun was legendary for shredding tanks, but its most improbable target was on the open sea. During a ...

Struggling to withstand dangerous Nazi attacks on U.S. supply boats, three famous U.S. Navy battleships faced heavy resistance as they closed-in on the German-held Cotentin Peninsula as part of the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: While approaching closer to the shoreline, U.S. Navy ships fought off heavy German attacks from mortars, artillery and machine guns. Struggling to withstand dangerous ...

In World War I, writes Chicoan and naval historian David Bruhn, “German U-boats sank over 5,200 vessels and came dangerously close to choking off Britain’s critical supply of food in the spring of ...

The German battle cruiser Derfflinger four minutes before finally sinking at 1445, 21 June 1919. (Courtesy of Senior Chief Hull Maintenance Technician H. E. Manlove, 1975, now in the collections of ...

Struggling to withstand dangerous Nazi attacks on U.S. supply boats, three famous U.S. Navy battleships faced heavy resistance as they closed-in on the German-held Cotentin Peninsula as part of the ...