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.

In early January 1942 a convoy of transport ships made it through the British Navy and Air Force, supplying Rommel with an additional seventy five tanks and armored cars. Together with the ...

Erwin Rommel entered France in 1940 in command of a panzer division, moving around the Maginot Line with the bulk of German attackers and slamming into the French defenses from behind. He would go ...

Why were Rommel’s tanks blowing up? As the Desert Fox’s panzers churned through the Libyan desert in May 1942, they were confident of victory. For more than a year, despite being outnumbered ...

And yet, without the two gallant tank battalions which went charging into the side of Rommel's 7th Panzer Division outside Arras on May 21 1940, the Dunkirk party would have been over rather sooner.

A theme Rommel returns to again and again is the importance ... since . . . supplies are the fundamental premise of the battle. . . .” On tanks: ”The armor is the core of the motorized army.

Rommel attempted an attack between 30 August ... dubbed 'the Devil's Gardens' by the Germans - backed by strong anti-tank gun positions. But things were not going well on the German side.

Outcome: Allied victory, forcing Rommel to retreat into Tunisia. Note: Three hundred Sherman tanks that were hastily shipped to Egypt from the USA were a crucial influence on the outcome of this ...