Invented modern armored combined-arms doctrine He was killed in action on April 28, 1945, at age 23, just days before Germany surrendered. He went on to integrate armor into the Red Army and win the war’s greatest land campaigns, including Moscow (1941), Stalingrad (1942), Kursk (1943), lifting the siege of Leningrad (1944), Operation Bagration (1944), and taking Berlin (1945).Īdvancing from loader to gunner to commander in Panzer IVs, Tigers, and Tiger IIs on the Russian front and in Normandy, Hungary, and Moravia, Knispel was officially credited with 168 Allied tanks destroyed-including a T-34 hit at almost two miles away-more tanks than any other tanker ever. Zhukov made his mark using tanks to flank and annihilate the Japanese 23rd Division at Khalkin Gol in August 1939, as Japan attempted to expand its control from occupied Manchuria into Soviet Mongolia.
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Commanding from a series of a half dozen Centurion tanks as each was knocked out, Greengold fought for 20 hours, destroying between 20 and 40 Syrian vehicles before dropping to the ground, wounded, burned, and exhausted, with the words, “I can’t anymore.” He was awarded the Itur HaGvura, Israel’s highest medal of valor. Zwi Greengold, Israeli, Yom Kippur Warĭuring the Battle of Golan Heights in 1973, “Zwicka” Greengold of the 188th “Barak” (Lightning) Brigade organized a small scratch force that prevented two large Syrian armored formations from breaking through Israeli lines. He was finally cornered and killed in his Tiger I tank by five British or Canadian Shermans on August 8, 1944. Michael Wittmann, German, World War IIĬredited with destroying 138 tanks, 132 antitank guns, and uncounted other vehicles on the Russian front and at Normandy, SS-Hauptsturmführer Wittmann is best known for his rampage against the British 7th Armored Division outside Villers-Bocage in June 1944, devastating as many as 14 tanks, 2 antitank guns, and 15 other vehicles in 15 minutes. November 17 - Nov.The War List: Great Tank Commanders CloseĬapt.November 9: Third Battle of Halfaya Pass.November 8: Battle of Youk-Les-Bains Airfield.November 8: Battle of Tafarquay Airfield.November 2–4: Battle of Sidi Abdel Rahman.October 28 - November 1: Battle of Thompson's Post.October 26–28: The German Counter Attack.October 25: Fourth Battle of Tell el Eisa.October 23: Fourth Battle of Ruweisat Ridge.October 23–25: Battle of the Oxalic Line.August 30 – September 2: Battle of Alam el Halfa.July 22: Third Battle of Ruweisat Ridge.July 14: Second Battle of Ruweisat Ridge.July 3–5: Battle of the Qattara box (Also known as Battle of the Kaponga box).July 1–2: First Battle of the Coast Road.May 28- June 10: Battle of Bir Hakeim.January 28: Second Battle of Benghazi.January 23: Second Battle of Cyrenaica Line.January 21: Second Battle of El Agheila.December 23: Second Battle of Beda Fomm.December 11–27: First Battle of Cyrenaica Line.December 3–7: second action at Bir el Gubi.November 29 - December 1: Battle of Belhamed.November 29 - December 4: Battle of Ed Dedu.November 22: Second Battle of Sidi Omar.November 21 – December 7: Second Battle of Tobruk.November 19 - December 1: Battle of Sidi Rezegh (known by the Germans as "de Salis Ridge" ).November 19: first action at Bir el Gubi.June 15–16: Sixth Battle of Fort Capuzzo.June 15–17: Fourth Battle of Halfaya Pass.May 15–16: Fifth Battle of Fort Capuzzo.April 30: First Battle of Halfaya Pass.April 12: Fourth Battle of Fort Capuzzo.April 10 - November 27: Siege of Tobruk.September 9–16: Italian invasion of Egypt (Operation E).June 15–17: First Battle of the Camps (Also known as Battle of the Marmaric).This is part of the more comprehensive List of World War II Battles. This is not a comprehensive list of all engagements and generally does not cover isolated skirmishes of units smaller than a company in size. This includes the campaigns in Egypt and Libya (often referred to as the Western Desert campaign or the "Egypt-Libya Campaign") and those campaigns in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia (usually referred to as the Tunisia campaign. This is a listing of World War II battles occurring during the North African Campaign and is sometimes known as the "Desert War".
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