Land combat in World War II was dominated by the tank. The role of these hefty vehicles changed somewhat as the war evolved, with new models being manufactured and their weapons and defenses evolving.

The M3 medium tank was an interim tank that addressed a significant armor capability gap in both the United States and Great Britain. Immediately pre-war, the United States possessed a rather small ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The M3 medium tank was a lesson in expediency: it was cheap and good enough to enter mass production. The M3 medium tank was an interim tank that addressed a ...

The Americans hurriedly started to develop a tank that would later become the legendary and highly successful M4 Sherman medium tank. In the meantime, however, both the Americans and the British ...