Sentence examples for panzer from inspiring English sources

For the first time in history tanks were used for deep thrusting movements controlled by radio telephone.German military observers were present at these exercises, and in July 1935 an entire panzer division was tested using similar techniques.

He was chief of staff of the Sixteenth Army during the campaign against France (1940), was promoted to lieutenant general that same year, and commanded the 3rd Panzer (armoured) Division in the invasion of the Soviet Union (1941).

IV (along with the Pz. V, described below) formed the backbone of Germany's panzer divisions from 1943 to the war's end.

I was a light tank intended as a training vehicle for the new panzer divisions until the more powerful Pz.

Claus, Count Schenk von Stauffenberg, entered the German army in 1926 and won distinction as a staff officer with a panzer (armoured) division in the campaigns in Poland and northern France (1939 40).

It was nevertheless the mainstay of the panzer divisions in the first two years of the war, because of delays encountered in building the more powerful Pz.

The 192nd Panzer Grenadier Regiment actually reached the beach at 2000 hours, but the division's 98 panzers were halted by antitank weapons, air strikes, and Allied tanks themselves.

In my early days as an MP there were a number of ladies in the Palace of Westminster who would not have been offended had I described them as "tanks" – heavily armoured Panzers with 88mm guns, at that.

Panzers and dive-bombers could slice through fronts, defeat armies, and overrun countries, but holding those countries down in the face of hit-and-run guerrilla and terrorist attacks was a different matter altogether and could be achieved, if at all, only by old-fashioned infantry.

By evening the 3rd Division had linked up with the British 50th Division from Gold Beach to the west, but to the east the Canadians were unable to make contact with the British 3rd Division from Sword Beach leaving a gap of 3 km (2 miles) into which elements of the German 21st Panzer Division counterattacked.

West of Fāʾiḍ, the 21st Panzer Division, under General Heinz Ziegler, destroyed 100 U.S. tanks and drove the Americans back 50 miles.