One of the most terrifying tank battles of WW2 came at the French in May of 1940 , in Battle of Stonne. A German officer ...

This was supposed to be the Char B1 ter, however, the fall of France in 1940 meant that research on this tank stopped as the Germans began taking over French war production. How the Char B1 ...

Meet the Char B1 Tank from World War II . At five o’clock in the morning on May 16, 1940 a company of the 8th Panzer Regiment lay in an ambush position along a rubble-strewn street of the French ...

While France was defeated by German advances in 1940, the Allied nation put up a valiant fight thanks to the formidable Char B1 - a legendary WWII tank. Tech. ... 1940, in the French town of Stonne.

Suddenly, a squat green tank lumbered around a street block directly before of the German unit. This was Eure, a 31.5-ton Char B1 bis tank commanded by Capt. Pierre Billotte.

The French Char B1 – a behemoth weighing 28 tons – was not the pinnacle of tank design. It was underpowered, often unreliable, and in the face of the German blitzkrieg, it seemed almost archaic.