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 ...
Key point: America wanted good tank destroyers to match what the Germans had. During the 1940s, the U.S. Army developed a special weapon to counter the tanks of the German Wehrmacht. Most of these ...
The American Heritage Museum’s World War II tanks will be on display and operating in a series of unique demonstrations May 15-16. These include the M4 Sherman, M24 Chaffee and M10 Tank Destroyer.