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Showdown: 5 Greatest Tank Battles in Military History There are actually several armored showdowns that rightfully rank as being among the greatest tank battles. Here is a sample of what I would argue should be the top five. Certainly, anyone who has ever played the video game World of Tanks likely has debated what is the "best tank," and the fact remains that there will likely never be a consensus as opinion plays a factor. When it comes to what was the "greatest tank battle" in history, it comes down to the numbers as well as the type of tanks involved, but also how the tanks were employed...

It could have turned out differently. Here's What You Need to Remember: Even if D-Day had failed, the war would have continued. Despite Hitler's hopes that defeating D-Day would persuade the Allies to seek peace, the Soviet armies would have continued to march on Germany, and the Allies would have eventually mounted another invasion. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's face was grim but composed as he read a short message to the assembled group of reporters on the morning of June 7, 1944. "Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn th...

Holding the Line at Smolensk: The Red Army's Bloody Attempt To Stop the Nazi Juggernaut In Smolensk during the summer of 1941, the Soviet Red Army attempted to slow Hitler's Operation Barbarossa. Here's What You Need to Know: The Red Army suffered over 600,000 casualties, including almost 400,000 men taken prisoner. After crushing the first-line Soviet armies in brutal three-week cauldron battles at the border, the steamroller of German Army Group Center continued deeper into Soviet territory during the opening days of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, which began on Ju...

Hitler's Secret World War II Weapon: Horses Thousands of pack animals and cavalry horses in WWII labored in the German Army, and many were killed in combat or slaughtered by starving soldiers. Here's What You Need to Know: Horsemanship was taught at SS academies. By 1939 the German Reich possessed 3,800,000 horses to be used in WWII German cavalry while 885,000 were initially called to the Wehrmacht as saddle, draft, and pack animals. Of these, 435,000 horses were captured from the USSR, France, and Poland. Additional horses were purchased from Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Ireland....

Weeks of heavy fighting produced the first Red Army victory of the war on the Eastern Front. Here's What You Need to Know: Although Yelnya became nothing more than a footnote in the history of the war on the Eastern Front, it showed what a determined Red Army could accomplish. The smell of victory was in the air as the forces of Field Marshal Fedor von Bock’s Army Group Center continued to drive deep into the Ukraine during the final week of June 1941. To most of the young soldiers of the army group it seemed that this would be another unstoppable blitzkrieg. Their commander, however, saw ...