Leighton Willhite was a 19-year-old Marine corporal when he landed on Iwo Jima in 1945 as part of the battle’s opening ...

LST-325 is the last fully operational World War II "landing ship, tank" of its kind, first commissioned on Feb. 1, 1943.

Shrapnel discovered inside The Tank Museum’s Tiger 131, the only running WWII Tiger I tank, highlights its historic 1943 capture by British forces in Tunisia.

When Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, German forces surged into Soviet territory with overwhelming speed, ...

Famed German general Erwin Rommel, nicknamed “the Desert Fox,” is considered one of the greatest tank commanders to ever live thanks to his campaigns in North Africa in World War II. Rommel proved the ...

Long before the well-engineered M1 Abrams, tanks were used in warfare as far back as 1915 in the first half of WWI. By the time the Second World War commenced in 1939, they had evolved into a ...

Morgan Freeman emphatically makes his point in the new History documentary, “761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers,” which opens with a D-Day battle clip from the 1998 movie “Saving ...

The USS LST 325 is the last fully operational World War II vessel of its kind in the United States. Muscatine city officials said in a news release that the ship played a critical role in transporting ...

A teen made a dramatic entrance at prom in a WWII tank, driven by his late father's adventurous spirit. Sherman Bynum's father, whose name was also Sherman, died in February 2023 after battling an ...

WWII demonstrated that reliability and systemic alignment outweighed raw performance. German tanks like the Tiger represented ...

World War II saw a wide variety of tanks deployed by Allied and Axis forces, but one of the strangest of the era was a British model that, despite some useful features, never actually saw its way into ...