A Long Island man, now 99, was part of a tank crew that drove across France after D-Day. “War is hell,” he told his family. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Friday, and it’s Veterans Day. We’ll look ...
The M4 Sherman medium battle tank was one of the most iconic fighting vehicles of the second world war and a defining image of the American Army in Europe. In the decades following the war, the ...
On September 2, 1941, the prototype T6 tank was completed at Aberdeen Proving Ground, becoming the first U.S. design to feature a three-man turret crew and the predecessor to nearly 50,000 production ...
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 ...
The photo of his Sherman tank, taken in a field in the last days of World War II, hung on the wall for decades at the Andreadis home in West Hills. And though his son Nick said Thursday his father ...
An organization west of Uvalde is using retired war-time weapons to create one of the ultimate outdoor experiences. Drive two hours west of San Antonio, and you travel much farther back in time.