The heart-stopping detonation and the toll of twisting metal reverberated across the stretch of Bourguébus Ridge. For a brief, terrifying moment, the crew of the M4A2 Sherman was ensnared in a ...

At the outbreak of the Second World War, tanks were still evolving from interwar experiments into true battlefield weapons.

One of the most underrated World War II movies ever made is back on the streaming charts, 11 years after its initial ...

Armored vehicles are sort of the ultimate bulwark when it comes to any sort of military ground operations. The First […] ...

Many believe that the Churchill tank, widely used by the United Kingdom during World War II, was named for then-prime minister Winston Churchill. It was not—but there is a connection.

Clint Eastwood has been in his fair share of memorable action sequences, including ones found in Dirty Harry, Kelly's Heroes, ...

In the summer of 1942, the British Eighth Army was losing the war in North Africa. Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps had smashed ...

You may be familiar with the works of Thomas Hart Benton, the Neosho, Mo.-born painter and muralist who became part of the ...

When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...

When most people think of the Pacific Theater of World War II, they envision tropical islands, heat, and jungle combat. However, the 18-day campaign in May 1943 to retake a remote Aleutian island from ...

Army historian Peter Knight joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about World War II. What is the timeline ...

At first, disarmament was imposed on Germany. American and Russian forces seized weapons depots, sealed off factories, and ...