In the frozen twilight of 1944, Europe seemed on the brink of Allied victory as exhausted German forces staggered along their own borders. After the breakout from Normandy, momentum was firmly in the ...

We were opposed by no less than eight SS Panzer Divisions including the 21 SS Panzer, Hitler Jugend Division, 2 SS Pz Division and 9 and 10 SS Pz Divisions transferred by Hitler from the Russian ...

Its primary duty was to provide artillery support for the speedy forward-advancing Panzer divisions. It also used the steering system from a Panzer III (thus the III/IV in the elongated name).

Two days later Hitler informed his generals that he was canceling the offensive and transferring the SS Panzer divisions to Italy, to repel any Allied landings on the Italian peninsula.

It said 1,408 Finnish volunteers served with the SS Panzer Division Wiking during 1941-43, most of them 17 to 20-years-old.

Turns out, the World War II-era Panzer tank sitting along Charleston's waterfront was just a life-size replica of the feared Axis Powers fighting machine nicknamed the Tiger 1.