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 ...

CAIRO, Oct. 29, 1942 (UP) - The Allies have beaten back Marshal Erwin Rommel's Nazi tanks on the Egyptian front for the second straight day, shot down 10 more of his planes and sunk another big ...

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.

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 ...

Tanks would have to move under cover of darkness or when weather conditions made flight operations impossible. In Rommel's view, a strategic reserve would come under attack from Allied air and ...

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.

There aren't many veterans of the Second World War who can claim to have hitched a ride on a Tiger Tank thanks to German General Erwin Rommel - but 92-year-old William A. Pollauf can. Recounting ...