Built for speed instead of heavy armor, the M18 Hellcat redefined what a tank destroyer could be. Capable of racing around the battlefield at 55 miles per hour, it struck German armor where it wasn’t ...

The T‑34, the legendary tank of the Soviet Union, became a true game-changer in World War II. With its sloped armor, superior mobility, and powerful cannon, it could withstand attacks that would ...

World War II was fought on land, sea, and air, but it was the small arms carried by millions of soldiers that shaped the ...

Anderson Giles, a retired University of Maine at Presque Isle art professor who has dedicated more than 30 years of his life to ...

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

The tradition of naming tanks for American generals began not with the Americans themselves, but with the British.

Gilbert "Choc" Charleston, who fought in the Battle of the Bulge and was the last remaining member of the 739th Tank ...

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.

Meet the 60 deadliest tank aces in military history — commanders whose skill, strategy, and impossible battlefield feats ...

In the summer of 1942, the British Eighth Army was losing the war in North Africa. Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps had smashed through the Gazala line, captured Tobruk, and sent the British reeling back ...

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

Many Panther Valley Junior/Senior High School students have family members who worked in the area mines, or grandparents or ...