The Centurion stands as one of the most successful and enduring tanks in military history. Developed by the United Kingdom during the final years of World War II, the Centurion was designed to address ...
The First World War introduced the horrors of trench warfare. Thousands of artillery pieces launched millions of shells over frontlines brimming with infantrymen struggling in the mud for mere feet of ...
In the summer of 1942, the British Eighth Army was losing the war in North Africa. Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps had smashed ...
Many believe that the Churchill tank, widely used by the United Kingdom during World War II, was named for then-prime minister Winston Churchill. It was not—but there is a connection.
The tradition of naming tanks for American generals began not with the Americans themselves, but with the British.