In the final months of World War II, Allied forces sometimes found German weapons abandoned not because they were useless, ...

American tanks in World War II were generally inferior to their German counterparts. German tanks boasted better armor protection and more firepower. But armor and lethality don’t tell the whole story ...

They knew the Sherman’s silhouette. They knew its strengths: reliability, speed, numbers, and mechanical simplicity. They also knew its weaknesses. Against Panthers and Tigers, a Sherman often needed ...