Land mines are among the world’s oldest and most widespread weapons. They’re designed to be placed on the ground, often concealed under a layer of earth or debris. Mines are equipped with pressure plates that, when triggered by footsteps, wheels, or tank tracks, activate a detonator. This detonates the mines’ explosive payloads, killing or maiming people within range of the explosion or damaging a tank or other military vehicle.
Anti-personnel mines are designed to be triggered by the body weight of any adult human, while anti-tank mines require hundreds of pounds of pressure to detonate.
A German Tiger tank piled with land mines before being blown up by British Army engineers, August 1944.
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LEGENDARY : German 1944 King Tiger tank restored to working order
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Meet the M26 Pershing: The World War II Super Tank
The M26 would have helped beat the Nazis, but the new tank would not be produced and transported in time.
Key point: The Allies during and after D-Day could really have used the M26. However, that tank would not see action until the Korean War.
“We had been assured by our officers before we invaded France in 1944,” recorded Bill Harris, “that our Sherman tanks could take care of any Nazi armor we met there.”
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Harris, a tank gunner in the U.S. 2nd Armored Division, had been told over and over again that the American M4 Sherman Medium Tank (the Allies’ main battle tank) was as good, if not superior, to any armored fighting vehicle in the Wehrmacht’s arsenal. Unfortunately for hundreds of U.S. and Allied tankers, including Harris, who had three Shermans shot from under him during the war in Western Europe, the nine savage weeks of fighting in the
Mother Nature could have thrown her support behind Hitler’s hordes.
Here s What You Need to Remember: Despite Hitler s hopes that defeating D-Day would persuade the Allies to seek peace, the Soviet armies would have continued to march on Germany, and the Allies would have eventually mounted another invasion. The war would go on until the Third Reich was gone.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower s face was grim but composed as he read a short message to the assembled group of reporters on the morning of June 7, 1944. Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.