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 ...
Key Point: Armor and lethality don’t tell the whole story. American tanks in World War II were generally inferior to their German counterparts. German tanks boasted better armor protection and more ...
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The 'Secret' Sherman Tank that Ended Nazi Germany's Greatest Ace: Michael Wittmann's Final Duel Revealed
For years, the German Tiger Tank was an unstoppable menace on the battlefield. The Allies' answer was the ingenious British ...
Denis (centre), Tom (far right), and Bert (between them), on top of their Sherman. This picture was taken in Bremen in April 1945. (Eric Hoskins is on the left, next to him is Capt J (Wally) ...
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The Day Shermans Aced the Panther: Arracourt, Where Hitler’s Best Tanks Met Their Bloody Match
At Arracourt in September 1944, a desperate German counter-attack pitted newly-formed Panzer Brigades, armed with the ...
The American soldiers and tanks of the C company of the 752nd Tank Battalion navigate through the woods and fields,[...] ...
Clarence Smoyer had not been inside a Sherman tank since 1945, when he occupied a gunner’s seat as the Third Armored Division blasted its way inside Germany at the tip of the American advance to help ...
The inside of a tank was Clarence Smoyer's home, and the crew was his family. In that sense, the 95-year-old veteran returned home Wednesday for the first time since World War II. One of the last ...
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