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.
Key Point: The Sherman’s inadequacies were products of its origins. American tanks in World War II were generally inferior to their German counterparts. German tanks boasted better armor protection ...
Germany captured an American Sherman tank in North Africa and tested it exhaustively throughout 1943. What German engineers ...
2020-01-19T18:00:15-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/6c5/20200119181817003_hd.jpgRetired U.S. Army Colonel and living history hobbyist Alexander Kose explains the ...
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 ...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- It was an unusual delivery to the Heinz History Center -- a 37-ton Sherman tank now parked outside the museum as part of the center's "World War II -- We Can Do It" exhibit. "I'm ...
It is a tank that helped the Allies win World War II. "There are only about 30 American Sherman tanks that are in running condition in America," said Bud Walker, a reenactor. And it is at World War II ...
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 ...
Pennsylvania National Guard Adjutant Gen. Wesley E. Criag wants to move the Sherman tank on display in front of the old Gobin Guard armory in North Middleton Township to a field museum he continues to ...
This video dives into the iconic M4 Sherman’s two main guns, the 75mm M3 and the 76mm M1, comparing their strengths, ...
BOSTON (CBS) -- A World War II hero got the surprise, and honor, of his life Wednesday in Charlestown. He was reunited with the type of tank he used in Europe. He was once called the "Hero of Cologne" ...
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