The Panzer V Panther tank was a German tank that was well-traveled in World War II. It was used in battles in Italy, France, Belgium, and Holland.

However, the tank proved ineffective against the Soviet Red Army’s T-34 medium tanks, and beginning in 1942, numerous modifications were made to the Panzer IV.

PANZER I The first German tank, Panzerkampfwagen I, or Panzer I, entered production in 1934. It was a light tank created by Henschel, MAN, Krupp and Daimler mostly for training purposes.

The Panzer V, also known as the Panther, was a direct response to the T-34 tank. The 44-ton tank was exceptionally well armored, in part due to sloped armor copied from the T-34.

But what makes the M18 Hellcat one of the best tank destroyers of World War II is that it had the highest kill-loss ratio of any armored vehicle in the U.S. inventory.

World War II was not quite the end of the line for U.S. tank destroyers. The M36 Jackson and its 90-millimeter gun were hastily called back for use in the Korean War five years later to counter ...

On the other side, Germany had a series of Panzer tanks that proved formidable but ultimately fell to Allied tanks and artillery. (These are the biggest and smallest armies of World War II.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (CN) – A collector paid $2.5 million for a World War II German Panzer IV Tank, but when it tried to pick it up the sellers refused to let go of it, the collector claims in court.