For its part, the M-4 was good in 1942, adequate in 1943 and totally outclassed by 1944. Unfortunately for American tankers, the war lasted until 1945. American tanks in World War II were generally ...

Key point: The side with the Sherman won the war. American tanks in World War II were generally inferior to their German counterparts. German tanks boasted better armor protection and more firepower.

This Sherman from the French 2nd Armoured Division was knocked out just outside Grussenheim on January 26, 1945, during the ...

The M4 Sherman was not the most heavily armored or most powerfully armed tank of World War II, but it revealed a deeper ...

The last time Clarence Smoyer rode in a Sherman tank, he was a 21-year-old corporal in the U.S. Army. That was in 1945. But in Boston this week, the now-95-year-old Pennsylvania native got a huge ...

Clarence Smoyer had not been inside a Sherman tank since 1945, when he occupied a gunner’s seat as the Third Armored Division blasted its way inside Germany at the tip of the American advance to help ...

It’s been described as a Crematorium on Wheels, a Tommycooker or, as World War II veteran Clarence Smoyer once referred to it, “home.” One of the last functioning Sherman tanks rolled down the narrow ...

BOSTON (AP) — The inside of a tank was Clarence Smoyer’s home, and the crew was his family. In that sense, the 95-year-old veteran returned home Wednesday for the first time since World War II. One of ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- A World War II hero got the surprise, and honor, of his life Wednesday in Charlestown. He was reunited with the type of tank he used in Europe. He was once called the "Hero of Cologne" ...

The last time Clarence Smoyer rode in a Sherman tank, he was a 21-year-old corporal in the U.S. Army. That was in 1945. But in Boston this week, the now-95-year-old Pennsylvania native got a huge ...