The Sherman was never the most powerful tank on the battlefield, but it was the one that never stopped moving. With more than 50,000 built, it fought from North Africa to Normandy and across the ...

Key point: The Sherman tank was useful because it was reliable but it was also not the best technology had to offer. But armor and lethality don’t tell the whole story. The same American tanks were ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The tank-destroyer force was the Army’s response to the wild successes of German armor in Poland and France in 1939 and 1940. Panzer divisions would concentrate more ...

In September 1944, British officer Stuart Hills drove his Sherman tank into the Belgian city of Geel, unaware that German troops were lying in wait with one of their most feared weapons—the ...