Germany captured an American Sherman tank in North Africa and tested it exhaustively throughout 1943. What German engineers discovered challenged their assumptions about armored warfare, reliability, ...
Sherman tanks would be an important part of the Allies' arsenal during World War II, a conflict that would be shaped by the use of tank tactics. The very first Shermans began to be manufactured for ...
The First World War introduced the horrors of trench warfare. Thousands of artillery pieces launched millions of shells over frontlines brimming with infantrymen struggling in the mud for mere feet of ...