The Sherman offered its five-man crew a maximum armor thickness of 76 mm armor, half that of its feared foe, the King Tiger. Throughout the war, the thin armor increased to 89 mm.

Harry Miller of Ohio was just 16 when he joined the Army’s 740th Tank Battalion in Belgium, just east of where the Battle of the Bulge started on Dec. 16, 1944 — one of the largest and ...

Here are the tanks, vehicles, and artillery that fought the Battle of the Bulge. M1 Pack Howitzer / M116 Two M116 75mm Howitzers in Chengkungling ( CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED ) by u7384u53f2u751f ...

He entered the battle in what amounted to a Frankenstein's monster-esque tank after he and his crew pieced together three M4 Sherman tanks and an M-36 Tank Destroyer from a supply depot in ...

Brig. Gen. Bruce C. Clarke should have been on leave in Paris, enjoying a well-earned break from the nearly constant combat he’d been in since D-Day.

The Battle of the Bulge had begun. Photo Contributed Army Medic Robert Wineland, in Belgium in late 1944, was part of the 106th Division during the Battle of the Bulge.

David Kindy The Washington Post Harry Miller was jolted to consciousness by the sound of explosions on Dec. 16, 1944. Stationed with the U.S. Army’s 760th Tank Battalion in Neufchâteau, Belgium ...

The siege of Bastogne was lifted on Dec. 26, 1944, when a tank column from the 4th Armored Division of then-Lt. Gen. George Patton's Third Army reached the city led by a Sherman tank nicknamed the ...

Jim Andreadis, 96, and fellow World War II tank veteran Julius Fiorini, 99, of West Babylon, who fought with the 747th Tank Battalion at the Battle of the Bulge, were honored as part of a pre ...

He entered the battle in what amounted to a Frankenstein’s monster-esque tank after he and his crew pieced together three M4 Sherman tanks and an M-36 Tank Destroyer from a supply depot in ...

Brig. Gen. Bruce C. Clarke should have been on leave in Paris, enjoying a well-earned break from the nearly constant combat he’d been in since D-Day.