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Why the US built a tank destroyer with almost no armor
When German armor swept across Europe, the U.S. Army reached a radical conclusion: speed could replace protection. The M18 ...
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The American tank that broke German doctrine in World War II
In September 1944, German Panther tanks advanced confidently through the fog of eastern France. Instead, they encountered a ...
Staff Sgt. Clyde Choate was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions defending a German tank attack during WWII. (Source: Military Times Hall of Valor) By the time the United States entered World ...
As a result, half of the battalions converted to towed, 76-millimeter M5 guns similar in effectiveness to the M10’s own gun. These supplemented the companies of lighter 57-millimeter guns integrated ...
Thanks to a massive 90mm main gun, the M36 was one of the few American tank destroyers that could reliably engage any German armored vehicles, even at extreme distances. During... Here’s What You Need ...
In a slight fog, at 6:20 on the morning of Nov. 20, 1917, the tank entered modern warfare. At that moment 378 steel monsters rolled toward the German lines on the Cambrai front. The armored vehicles, ...
Most armoured cars in the Second World War were built to do one thing: see the enemy first and run away fast. Lightly armoured, thin-skinned, and outgunned, they were scouts, not fighters. But Britain ...
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