On July 12, 1943, the battlefield at Prokhorovka exploded as more than 1,200 tanks collided. In the chaos, SS Lieutenant Rudolf von Ribbentrop’s Panzer IV found itself surrounded by wave after wave of ...
As the backbone of German and Soviet armored forces, the Panzer IV and T-34 clashed on nearly every Eastern Front battlefield. While the T-34 initially outclassed German armor, upgrades like the ...