On the second day of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union collided head-on with a harsh reality: German 37 mm antitank guns were powerless when a wave of T-34 and ...
The Marder tank destroyer was never built to trade blows. Thinly armored and dangerously exposed, it survived only by fighting smart. On the Eastern Front, German crews perfected a brutal doctrine: ...