During the fighting on Iwo Jima, when another Marine tank got bogged down, Lucky’s crew responded. Tank commander Lt. Leonard ...
Not counting prototypes, a total of 49,234 of these tanks were produced, a number surpassed only by the Soviet T-34. Officially the Medium Tank, M4, this iconic tank kept the U.S. Army’s then-common ...
WDAY News Reporter Kevin Wallevand and photographer Ryan Longnecker rode in an M4 Sherman tank as it went on its first trip on Steamer Hill. Harold Kihn drives his restored Sherman tank at the Western ...
The directive took Staff Sergeant Lafayette G. Pool aback. For weeks, his olive-drab Sherman M4A1 medium tank, its sides painted in white block letters with the name In the Mood, had been in the lead ...
US Army Pfc. Jim Andreadis was a teenager in April 1945 when he made history. That month, the Brooklyn-bred soldier and his unit helped liberate the Nazi-run Ohrdruf concentration camp — one of World ...
The M4 Sherman Tank is one of the most storied military machines in U.S. history, as it helped the Allies defeat the Axis powers during World War II. These tanks are commonly on display at military ...
The M-50 Sherman played a major role in Israel’s early armored warfare history, seeing extensive action during the Suez ...
After World War II, the new state of Israel received a significant amount of military aid in the form of surplus Allied equipment, which was leftover from the war and no longer needed in Europe. In ...
During World War II, the M4 Sherman became the backbone of the American armored forces. However, it still had its flaws. One major design anomaly was the sheer number of engine types it used. The ...