The photos show just how the arms race to develop the ultimate tank progressed for all sides during this most devastating of conflicts. Above, a German Tiger II, Konigstiger - 'King Tiger'. Part of the 503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion, it is pictured in Budapest, 1944
US Captain Willard V. Horne, Communications Officer hands the receiver of a mobile radio to Lt. Stanley James. The crew, from 'B' company, have covered their M4A3 Sherman tank in sandbags while at rest in Alsace, 1945
James Gordon and Private Rainwater inspect a deserted Panther tank formerly of the Panzer Division Das Reich near Grandmenil, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge, at the end of 1944