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America’s Sherman Tank Was Just Target Practice for Nazi Germany The M-4 Sherman, in particular, helped the U.S. Army win the war—even though, in battle, German tanks destroyed them en masse. Here's What You Need to Remember: The U.S. did eventually field a new, heavier tank in early 1945. Sporting a 90-millimeter gun and thicker armor, the M-26 Pershing rectified many of the Sherman’s worst failures. In the fighting around Cologne, the M-26 bested German Panthers — even if the new American vehicle was underpowered and less reliable than the Sherman. American tanks in World War ...

These weapons did not last too long past World War II, but they did their part. Key point: These tank destroyers were deadly but also less heavily armored. Here is how they fought the Axis. During the 1940s, the U.S. Army developed a special weapon to counter the tanks of the German Wehrmacht. Most of these vehicles had the hull of a Sherman tank and a turret with a long-barrel cannon. But don’t dare call them tanks. These were tank- destroyers. After the war, the U.S. Army concluded tank destroyers were a waste of time. Official histories excoriated the failure of the program.

American Glider Troops at the Battle of the Bulge U.S. glider troops fought tenaciously to hold the crossroads town of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. Here's What You Need to Know: Marvie is a quiet town nestled in the Ardennes region of southern Belgium. A farming village with a population of several hundred people, history has almost forgotten the town, but on one day in December 1944, Marvie lay astride a road that led to another town—Bastogne. If the German panzergrenadiers and tanks had overrun the glider infantrymen who defended Marvie, they might have taken Bastogne, and th...

An American Infantry Division's Baptism of Fire in Nazi Germany In their first combat experience, a handful of American soldiers accomplished its objective and held against powerful German counter-attacks. Here's What You Need to Know: In November 1944, an American infantry division underwent its baptism of fire in the worst conditions imaginable and acquitted itself with honor beyond anyone’s expectation. The final outcome of the campaign, however, was determined by the heroic action of only 100 men who found themselves in a hopeless situation and simply would not give up. The men of the ...

How the Red Army Saved Leningrad in 1941 The Soviet Red Army blunted a German drive to capture the town of Tikhvin and seal the fate of Leningrad during Operation Barbarossa. Here's What You Need to Know: German forces in the north would never again be so close to totally cutting off the city. The men of Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb’s Heeresgruppe Nord (Army Group North) had little sleep during the night of June 21, 1941. Long before midnight, assault infantry and engineers had begun moving toward the border with the Soviet Union, the silence broken only by an occasional cough and...