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.

Key point: The tank was good in 1942, adequate in 1943 and totally outclassed by 1944. American tanks in World War II were generally inferior to their German counterparts. German tanks boasted better ...

The M4 Sherman was never the heaviest or most powerful tank of the war, but it appeared on nearly every battlefield the Allies fought. More than 50,000 were produced, serving from the deserts of North ...

In the final days of World War II, as U.S. troops advanced into Aschaffenberg, they encountered stiff German resistance in the form of something familiar: a Sherman tank, one of its beutepanzers, aka ...

At the start of World War II, most tanks carried short, low velocity guns designed mainly to support infantry rather than destroy enemy armor. That changed when the Soviet T-34 appeared with a ...

In the summer of nineteen forty three, German engineers at the Kummersdorf proving ground examined a captured American M4 Sherman[...] ...