BERLIN — Otto Carius, a World War II German panzer ace credited with destroying more than 150 enemy tanks, mostly on the Eastern Front, has died at 92. Carius died at home in western Germany Jan. 24 ...

Artillery rounds landed everywhere, and the German Panzers impatiently awaited the command to charge forward. It was November 1941, and the outskirts of Tula, south of Moscow, were heavily defended.

During World War 2, the Wehrmacht sent messages over the radio singling out a few men out of the millions serving, and it was the highest honor any soldier of any rank could receive. Throughout the ...

BERLIN – Otto Carius, a World War II German panzer ace credited with destroying more than 150 enemy tanks, mostly on the Eastern Front, has died at 92. Carius died at home in western Germany Jan. 24 ...

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At about 1230 on the 8th August 1944 near St Aignan in Normandy Hauptsturmführer Michael Wittmann the top German tank ace and Coy Comd in an SS Heavy Tank Coy Tiger was killed when his tank was ...