As a result, half of the battalions converted to towed, 76-millimeter M5 guns similar in effectiveness to the M10’s own gun. These supplemented the companies of lighter 57-millimeter guns integrated ...
As Allied forces pushed across Europe, U.S. tank destroyer crews faced Germany’s most feared armor in brutal close range battles. The lightning fast M18 Hellcat relied on speed and surprise to strike ...
2nd Armored Division, M36 Jackson tank destroyer on dug-in ramp has plenty of elevation to hurl shells at long range enemy targets across the Roer River during the Battle Of The Bulge ...
The tank-destroyer force was the Army’s response to the wild successes of German armor in Poland and France in 1939 and 1940. Panzer divisions would concentrate more than a hundred tanks on a narrow ...