The Italian artillery arm still needed self-propelled artillery weapons to support the armored formations.

"You may want to go on the ground with armored formations, tanks," General Wallace said.

Now, at this crucial moment, neither he nor Rundstedt could move these armored formations with- out Hitler's consent.

This Army was made up of only four infantry divisions, with no large-scale armored formations to use as a spearhead unit.

The 5th Panzer Division was an armored formation of the German Army from 1938 to 1945.

"I suggest that my armored formations move immediately in a northerly direction."

In addition, Bosnian terrain favored light infantry over armored and mechanized formations.

This type of patrol is used by armored formations in desert theaters, and also by ground troops operating in urban areas.

Vann, who was flying above the armored formation, demanded that Ba advance immediately.

They possessed no less than twelve infantry divisions and two armored formations.