M4 Sherman tanks were produced in greater numbers than any other tank in American history. The Sherman's 75 millimeter gun ...

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.

Today, U.S. Money Reserve announces the launch of the fifth release in its exclusive World War II: Valor & Victory Series of pure gold coins. The exclusive three-coin set pays tribute to the ...

Thus, low-pressure, low-velocity guns like the 90 mm found on the French Panhard AML-90 armored reconnaissance vehicle and the 76-mm gun on Britain's FV101 Scorpion (the fastest light tank in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

This tank, equipped with a 76mm cannon, ... The next morning, the Sherman tank – now abandoned ... to ensure that the tank was restored to its original condition in the best possible way for the 80th ...

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 ...

The M4 tank, the standard medium tank of the U.S. Army during World War II, is probably the most famous tank ever built.Nearly 50,000 Shermans were built between 1942 and 1945 and operated by all ...

Manuel “Manny” Perez saw World War II through the periscope of a Sherman tank. It rumbled onto the beaches of Normandy a few days after D-Day as part of the 737th tank battalion.

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 ...

Finally, after a three-day close-quarter battle, 13 Para cleared Bure of the enemy, with support from Sherman tanks of the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and a reinforcement company of glider infantry.