The German army entered World War II with a powerful reputation for armored warfare. Its doctrine, training, radios, and combined-arms methods helped produce the early Blitzkrieg victories that ...
The Sherman did not frighten German engineers at first glance. It was not a Tiger. It did not carry the thickest armor in the war. Its early 75mm gun was not designed to dominate heavy German tanks ...
Not counting prototypes, a total of 49,234 of these tanks were produced, a number surpassed only by the Soviet T-34. Officially the Medium Tank, M4, this iconic tank kept the U.S. Army’s then-common ...