Key Point: The KV had potential but wasn’t used right. Morever, they were too tall and easy to spot. A day after the German blitzkrieg into the Soviet Union in June 1941, more than 200 Nazi tanks were ...

A day after the German blitzkrieg into the Soviet Union in June 1941, more than 200 Nazi tanks were powering through Lithuania on a race northward to Leningrad. The Luftwaffe knocked out the Soviets’ ...

Debuting in 1939, the KV heavy tank shocked German commanders. With 75mm armor and a 76mm gun, it was immune to nearly every Panzer and even artillery. At the Winter War and in 1941, lone KV tanks ...

The grey, drizzly dawn broke at 3 a.m. over the rain-soaked fields and forests north of Orel (pronounced Oryol). The thundering artillery barrage which had been splitting the night lifted and the Red ...

A Soviet tank used by the Red Army to defend Leningrad from the Nazis has been raised from the muddy depths of a riverbed. The KV-1 tank sank in the Neva River near Leningrad - now St Petersburg - ...

On the second day of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union collided head-on with a harsh ...