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In order to combat the effectively neutralize the German Panzerwaffe, an entirely new doctrine of mechanized warfare was ...
Those booms and explosions filling Jacksonville today will be part of a demonstration of World War II-era tanks and artillery at the Morgan County Fair.
As WWII progressed, tank armour and the necessity for anti-tank guns to overcome heavier armour increased at a rapid pace.
But what makes the M18 Hellcat one of the best tank destroyers of World War II is that it had the highest kill-loss ratio of any armored vehicle in the U.S. inventory.
Here’s What You Need to Know: American forces fielded several variants of the M36 tank destroyer and gradually incorporated improvements into the design, including a travel lock that kept the ...
World War II was not quite the end of the line for U.S. tank destroyers. The M36 Jackson and its 90-millimeter gun were hastily called back for use in the Korean War five years later to counter ...
Tank destroyers came about during World War II as a method for combating main battle tanks. Some of the best tank destroyers of WWII looked similar to tanks but favored firepower, long range, and ...
1st Lt. Nathan B. Baskind was 28 when he was killed in June 1944. A platoon commander of four M-10 tank destroyers in Company C, 899th Tank Destroyer Battalion, Baskind and another soldier from ...
DANBURY - Ken LeLacheur has gained a few pounds too many to fit behind the controls of a tank destroyer like the one in which he spent the last six months of World War II. Almost all of the last ...
These tank destroyers were introduced to the European theater in 1944. Despite their unglamorous build, armored vehicles like this played a vital role in numerous campaigns and battles and, today, ...
Tank destroyers, halftracks and other World War II armor will also join in with re-enactors and a display of one of the first Jeeps built in 1941 next to a 2021 model for comparison.