During the German invasion of the Soviet Union he was a Panzersoldat and seriously wounded on the Eastern Front.
Using the Blitzkrieg, Guderian, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist and other field commanders such as Rommel broke the hiatus of the Phoney War in a manner almost outside the comprehension of the Allied — and, indeed, the German — High Command.
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Guderian had planned for two main tanks, the Panzer III was in production but the second support tank with a 75 mm gun was not.
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Second World War German tanks are typical examples of overengineered vehicles, which made them more expensive, fewer in number, more difficult to produce and heavier than their Soviet and Allied counterparts, while F-22 and F-35 fighters may be considered as examples of modern-day overengineering.