WDAY News Reporter Kevin Wallevand and photographer Ryan Longnecker rode in an M4 Sherman tank as it went on its first trip on Steamer Hill. Harold Kihn drives his restored Sherman tank at the Western ...
From the mass-produced M4 Sherman to the powerful M26 Pershing, U.S. armor provided the firepower and mobility that would be reflected in tank warfare down through the years Follow 24/7 Wall St. on ...
The last time Clarence Smoyer rode in a Sherman tank, he was a 21-year-old corporal in the U.S. Army. That was in 1945. But in Boston this week, the now-95-year-old Pennsylvania native got a huge ...
Key point: The side with the Sherman won the war. American tanks in World War II were generally inferior to their German counterparts. German tanks boasted better armor protection and more firepower.
Thanks to its starring role in World War II, the M4 Sherman tank is one of America’s most iconic and battle-tested machines. This particular example landed at Normandy just after D-Day, helped ...
KASOTA, Minneapolis -Thick, black diesel smoke coughs out of the M4A2E8 Sherman tank as I get a feel for the throttle. My father, a retired Army captain and tank platoon leader in Old Ironsides - the ...
For its part, the M-4 was good in 1942, adequate in 1943 and totally outclassed by 1944. Unfortunately for American tankers, the war lasted until 1945.American tanks in World War II were generally ...
During World War II, American engineers transformed the iconic Sherman tank into a rocket-firing juggernaut, inspired by the Soviet Katyusha. From the 60-tube T34 Calliope to the massive T40 Whizbang ...
In the final days of World War II, as U.S. troops advanced into Aschaffenberg, they encountered stiff German resistance in the form of something familiar: a Sherman tank, one of its beutepanzers, aka ...
Iron Wolf Studio’s Sherman Commander puts you in the turbulent skies of World War II armor warfare—but instead of flying, you’re firmly nestled inside the commander’s cupola of a Sherman tank. As a ...
The American Heritage Museum, a museum that explores America’s wars from the Revolutionary War to today’s Global War on Terror, is sponsoring a fundraising sweepstakes benefitting the museum. Icons of ...