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 ...
Key point: America wanted good tank destroyers to match what the Germans had. During the 1940s, the U.S. Army developed a special weapon to counter the tanks of the German Wehrmacht. Most of these ...
Here’s What You Need to Remember: Tank-destroyers were pretty much just tanks with inferior armor and better guns. Contrary to doctrine, commanders in the field asked them to perform most of the same ...