Throughout a significant portion of World War II, the British Army found itself equipped with a series of tanks that fell on ...

American armored divisions prioritized maneuverability for deep encirclements, influencing tank design like the M4 Sherman.

Towed anti-tank guns were not mobile enough, while the tank destroyers were too thinly armored to take on German tanks. Yet that philosophy had already shaped the Sherman.

The M4 Sherman tank was the standard U.S. tank in World War II. ... Several enemy anti-tank rounds ricocheted harmlessly. One enemy round bounced off the armor and destroyed the gun barrel.

During the 1940s, the U.S. Army developed a special weapon to counter the tanks of the German Wehrmacht. Most of these vehicles had the hull of a Sherman tank and a turret with a long-barrel cannon.

On the 80th anniversary of the iconic Sherman tank that spearheaded America’s liberation of Europe during World War II, the Museum of American Armor is seeking to honor those veterans who crewed ...