The military might of the United States has been decisive for the nation and its allies in several conflicts. In World War II, for instance, the support of the Lend-Lease program bolstered Allied ...
The battlefields of World War II saw the widespread use of tanks in every environment possible. Whether it was the open fields of France with the German Blitzkrieg, the deserts of North Africa with ...
At the U.S. Army First Division Museum in Wheaton, Illinois, you can see a real-life version of the M48 Patton Tank. The nickname on the turret reads “Snoopy,” but this was anything but a sleepy ...
In the aftermath of World War 2, the landscape of armored warfare underwent a seismic shift. The United States, recognizing ...
Even as the M47 entered production, the U.S. military began the development of an entirely new design. This resulted in the introduction of the M48 Patton. However, like the previous U.S. tanks, the ...
In the pre-dawn hours of March 3, 1969, soldiers at Ben Het Special Forces Camp in the Central Highlands near the Laotian border heard something unusual in the jungle. They had patrolled the area for ...
When Lance Cpl. Milo Plank Jr.’s tank platoon rolled off landing craft and onto beaches south of Chu Lai, Vietnam, in August 1965, nobody fired a shot at them. But later that day, as he drove his M48 ...
M48 Tank: Carrying On the Patton Legacy: The M48 was indeed America’s first generation of tanks to fit the MBT concept, but actually, was the third tank to bear the famous general’s name, following a ...