During the Second World War, American tank doctrine called for U.S. tanks to engage and defeat any enemy tanks they came up against. The Tank Destroyer Force made that possible. Thanks to a massive ...

Tanks were usually involved in any invasion in the European theatre during World War II. The German Panzer Is and IIs spearheaded the invasion of Poland, while the later Panzer IIIs and IVs were used ...

The Moment Everything Changed on the Western Front: American troops were facing an impossible enemy—German heavy armor like the Panther and Tiger. But in the late days of WWII, the powerful M36 Tank ...

The US Army's tank destroyers reached peak performance in the final battles of WWII, dominating German armor in the Ardennes ...

During the 1940s, the U.S. Army developed a special weapon to counter the tanks of the German Wehrmacht. Most of these vehicles had the hull of a Sherman tank and a turret with a long-barrel cannon.

It's not uncommon for civilians to see an armored fighting vehicle (AFV) with caterpillar tread and a large cannon and call it a tank. Those are the basic features that make up a main battle tank, ...

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