Even as the M4 Sherman entered production in 1942, the U.S. Army was already racing to replace it. The T20 tank program ...
The most common American armored vehicle during World War II was the M4 Sherman. It was a good tank with decent armor and firepower capable of facing contemporary tanks like the German Panzer III and ...
In the closing weeks of World War II, the United States finally committed its heaviest tank to combat. The M26 Pershing arrived just in time to encounter German Tigers in real fighting, from open ...
Key point: In the 1940s and 1950s, the Soviets, British, and French all fielded heavy tanks. The United States had fielded the forty-six-ton M-26 Pershing at the the end of World War II ...