Wars are rarely fought with perfect equipment. Throughout history, militaries have fielded weapons they knew were flawed, ...

This episode examines the American M4 Sherman and Soviet T-34 from design and doctrine to battlefield performance — exploring ...

The M4 Sherman became the most recognizable Allied tank of World War II—reliable, easy to produce, and present on every front. But its reputation has long been debated. This video examines whether the ...

Three US infantrymen in the snow during the Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, Belgium, World War II, January 1945.Getty Images As Christmas approached in December 1944, many Americans believed World War ...

In the early years of nuclear development, as atomic bombs and nuclear power made their way into the American military arsenal, companies in the defense industry sometimes got weird with them. They ...

The tradition of naming tanks for American generals began not with the Americans themselves, but with the British. The United States military’s M1 Abrams main battle tank (MBT) first entered service ...

If you've ever seen James Garner's movie "Tank" (unlikely; it's not great), you might have thought that it was just Hollywood straining credulity again. Surely, even a former U.S. Army command ...

When German engineers captured an American M4 Sherman tank in Tunisia in February 1943, they expected to find inferior American technology. Instead, what they discovered at the Kummersdorf testing ...

Here is a selection of their responses, which have been edited for brevity. I served in the United States Army from 1987 to 1991 and was deployed to Germany during the cold war. Like Mark Urban, I ...

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DUMFRIES, Va. — A 100 year-old World War II veteran and Marine tank driver reunited with the tank that once carried him through the Battle of Iwo Jima, rekindling his memory of one of the fiercest ...

While there were many pieces of impressive equipment developed and used throughout World War II, the United States' M4 Sherman remains one of the most legendary. The M4 was built by multiple companies ...