It was mocked as the "worst tank of the war"—but history tells a different story. The American Sherman wasn’t built to take down Tiger tanks in head-on duels. It was engineered for reliability, ...

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 ...

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.

2020-01-19T18:00:15-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/6c5/20200119181817003_hd.jpgRetired U.S. Army Colonel and living history hobbyist Alexander Kose explains the ...

In 1941, the U.S. built the T6 prototype, a strange, early version of what would become the M4 Sherman. With a wooden mockup, ...

Leighton Willhite was a 19-year-old Marine corporal when he landed on Iwo Jima in 1945 as part of the battle’s opening ...

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 last time Clarence Smoyer rode in a Sherman tank, he was a 21-year-old corporal in the U.S. Army. That was in 1945. But in Boston this week, the now-95-year-old Pennsylvania native got a huge ...

KASOTA, Minneapolis -Thick, black diesel smoke coughs out of the M4A2E8 Sherman tank as I get a feel for the throttle. My father, a retired Army captain and tank platoon leader in Old Ironsides - the ...