It weighed 69.8 tonnes (154 000 lbs), was 7.62 m (25 ft) long, was protected by 150 to 180 mm of frontal armor, and was armed with the 88 mm KwK 43 L/71 gun. Then, maybe the Panzerkampfwagen VIII The effectiveness of this close combat tank made it a useful piece of weaponry in World War II and a truly legendary tank. 8. M3 Stuart. Roberto Galan/Shutterstock. The M3 Stuart tank was a speed Like so many of the strange weapons the Nazis brought to the battlefields of the Second World War, the examples that remained were ground up and destroyed along with the rest of the Nazi war machine. The Berlin Air Force Museum of the German Federal Armed Forces proudly displays a wing spar of the Me 323, in the hope to offer a sense of scale The Battle of Kursk was a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern Russia during the late summer of 1943; it ultimately became the largest tank battle in history and resulted in a Soviet victory. German movements. The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was a major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II which took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region between Belgium and Luxembourg. Light Army Car. Roughly equivalent to the U.S. Jeep among German variants of WW2 vehicles but not as versatile, the Kurbelwagen was developed from the Volkswagen ‘‘people’s car’’ with a four-seat capacity and convertible top. The rear-mounted, air-cooled engine produced 24.5 hp, which yielded about 50 mph on level ground. Encyclopedia of German Tanks of World War Two (P.Chamberlain, H.L.Doyle) Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two (Steven J. Zaloga, James Grandsen) Panzerkampfwagen des 1. und 2. Weltkrieges (Andrew Kershaw) Fire and Movement (RAC Tank Museum) Operation Barbarossa: the Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Gertrud Stemmer (1913–2000) Signature. Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel ( pronounced [ˈɛʁviːn ˈʁɔməl] ⓘ; 15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) was a German Generalfeldmarschall ( field marshal) during World War II. Popularly known as the Desert Fox ( German: Wüstenfuchs, pronounced [ˈvyːstn̩ˌfʊks] ⓘ ), he served in the Wehrmacht YkFH.