Panzer
Wehrmacht's armored vehicle
Panzer is a German tank, especially from World War II.
The word is German for "armor" and appears in compound terms like Panzergrenadier (armored infantry) and Panzerfaust (antitank weapon).
In English, panzer typically evokes the German military of the Nazi era: Rommel's panzer divisions swept across North Africa.
Nazi Germany's armed forces
- Afrika KorpsGerman expeditionary force, Libya
- KurskRussian city and submarine
- StalingradRenamed Soviet industrial city
- Eastern FrontSoviet-German combat theater
Rommel · Tiger · Panther · Operation Barbarossa · Ardennes · Third Reich · Normandy · D-Day
Protruding fortified structure
- cannonLarge mounted gun
- armorProtective combat covering
- tracksMarks showing passage
- hullOuter covering or frame
crew · commander · gunner · driver · loader · periscope · hatch · treads
Surface metal application
- steelCarbon-hardened iron alloy
- reinforcedMade more resistant
- protectionGuarding against harm
- hardenedMade tough or unfeeling
thick · impenetrable · riveted · welded · sloped · composite · shielded · fortified
Wehrmacht
Nazi Germany's armed forces
- Afrika KorpsGerman expeditionary force, Libya
- KurskRussian city and submarine
- StalingradRenamed Soviet industrial city
Rommel · Eastern Front · Tiger · Panther · Operation Barbarossa · Ardennes · Third Reich · Normandy · D-Day · Western Front
turret
Protruding fortified structure
hull · crew · commander · gunner · driver · loader · periscope · hatch · treads · main gun
plating
Surface metal application
- steelCarbon-hardened iron alloy
- reinforcedMade more resistant
- protectionGuarding against harm
hardened · thick · impenetrable · riveted · welded · sloped · composite · shielded · fortified · resistant
- World War IIAllies, Nazi, Hitler, Axis, Third Reich
- German HistoryNazi, Prussia, Saxony, Reichstag, Napoleonic Wars
- Tank warfaretank, tanks, main battle tank, MBT, heavy tank
- military vehiclestank, tanks, supply trucks, fuel tankers, troop carriers
- model kitsSpitfire, Lancaster, Messerschmitt, Hurricane, Mustang
- tankstanks, storage tank, fuel tank, water tank, oil tank
Panzerinfantry
Ground combat troops
light infantry · cavalry · paratroopers · guerrillas · partisans
Panzerpeace
Freedom from disturbance
pacifism · disarmament · demilitarization · ceasefire · armistice
Panzerunarmored
Lacking protective covering
exposed · vulnerable · defenseless · unprotected · soft target
- panzer divisionGerman armored military formation