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The M3 Stuart tank was a speed machine — as far as tanks go — with a max speed of 36 miles per hour thanks to its powerful Continental W670-9A engine.
Lester Tenney, an Army tank commander who survived one of World War II’s signature horrors, the Bataan Death March, and spent his later years pushing Japanese authorities to apologize for their ...
On March 30, exactly 74 years to the day since Gen. Maurice Rose was gunned down by a German tank commander, Clarence Smoyer rumbled down Wynkoop Street in Denver's lower downtown perched in the ...
A total of 392 were produced by two manufacturers up to March 1945. The turreted Panther tank mounted a 75mm gun but, by eliminating the turret and adding a fixed superstructure it proved possible ...
COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES The T26E3 Pershing tank with the crew on March 6, 1945. Clockwise, from left, Pvt. William McVeigh, Pvt. John DeRiggi, Cpl. Clarence Smoyer, Sgt. Robert Earley ...
World War II tank gunner Clarence Smoyer, renowned for his courage and deadly aim during the battle for Germany’s “Fortress City” of Cologne, died Friday at his home in Allentown. He was 99.
Here's your chance to drive an actual World War II tank. If you've ever wanted to operate an M4 Sherman, M24 Chaffee, or M26 Pershing, it's now or never. ... Germany, March 27, 1945.
World War II tank gunner Clarence Smoyer poses for a portrait near the Charlestown Naval Shipyard in Boston, Feb. 20, 2019. The 95-year-old veteran was surprised with a ride through the streets of ...
A Sherman tank stops in the road during a World War II-themed street festival in Sainte-Mere-Eglise, ... Dodging tanks, storming a beach, the St. Aug Marching 100 makes memories in France.
His nickname came from an epic tank battle on March 6, 1945, when Smoyer and his crew defeated a German Panther Tank in the city of Cologne. The moment was captured on film .