Here’s What You Need to Remember: The tank-destroyer force was the Army’s response to the wild successes of German armor in Poland and France in 1939 and 1940. Panzer divisions would concentrate more ...
In 1944, Germany launched its last desperate offensive in the West, led by the elite 1st SS Panzer Division and Kampfgruppe Peiper. Advancing through the frozen Ardennes, the attack depended entirely ...
As tank-destroyers were drawn increasingly into infantry support roles that exposed them to artillery and infantry fire, their crews piled sandbags on top of them in order to detonate Panzerfaust anti ...