At five o’clock in the morning on May 16, 1940 a company of the 8th Panzer Regiment lay in an ambush position along a rubble-strewn street of the French town of Stonne. The day before, the unfortunate ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The B1s were very tough—flat-out invulnerable to the 20-milimeter gun on the Wehrmacht’s most numerous tank, the Panzer II. At five o’clock in the morning on May 16, ...

One of, if not the most famous French tanks of the Second World War was the B1 heavy tank and its improved model, the B1 Bis. These large infantry tanks were some of the most heavily armed and armored ...

The FCM Char 2C heavy tank was the French response to the legendary British Mark V Landship tank. The colossal metal beast weighed 69 tons, had a width of three meters, a height of four meters, and an ...