Taffy 3—consisting of six escort carriers, three destroyers, and four destroyer escorts—was there to cover troops storming ...

In the summer of 1942, the British Eighth Army was losing the war in North Africa. Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps had smashed ...

On January 26th, 1945, near the village of Holtzwihr in the Colmar Pocket, Audie Murphy performed one of the most ...

In this episode of WW2 Wayfinder we walk the streets of Stavelot, tracing the path of Kampfgruppe Peiper during the Battle of ...

The U.S. Army this week officially canceled its M10 Booker light tank program, ending the initiative just as it was preparing to enter full-scale production. The move follows more than a billion ...

Members of the North Carolina Air National Guard assess an Army M10 Booker Combat Vehicle before it is loaded onto a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft. (Staff Sgt. Reanna Hartgrove/U.S. Air National Guard ...

When the U.S. Army fields new equipment, it's a long process of research, development, and testing that doesn't always produce the desired results. This is true of many vehicles and weapon systems ...

The Army is canning the M10 Booker, a tank-like armored vehicle that the service chose less than two years ago as its first major new front-line combat weapon in decades, officials said Monday. The ...

The Army has officially killed further delivers of the M10 Booker, canceling not just a billion-dollar program to build a heavily-armed vehicle for fast-moving infantry units, but also putting a final ...

This story has been posted by Mark Jeffers with permission from the author. The author understands the terms and conditions. In North Africa we had 17 tanks in our company, which we kept in reserve.

Philippines. The first tank to cross the Mainit River on Leyte Island is a US Army M10 Tank Destroyer Armed introduced in late 1943, armed with high velocity 75mm gun open topped turret, five man crew ...

The case of Army 1st Lt. Nathan B. Baskind was unique in the annals of the more than 73,000 U.S. service members still listed as missing in action from World War II, and the case had long gone cold.