At the onset of World War II, the U.S. had no modern tanks equal to those used by the German military. Therefore, as an upgrade of the M2 Light Tank, the U.S. built the M3 Stuart in 1941, forming ...

It involved lifting the 14-ton light tank onto a trailer and rolling the whole convoy a distance of 70 miles (112.7 km) to the facility of Sandman's Sandblasting and Coating in Manchester, New York.

After the M5 tanks, Cadillac introduced the M-24 light tank, which was the M5 tank's successor and positioned as an improvement to that previous system. It was introduced in 1944 and 3,592 ...

PLAINFIELD — Town officials are looking to spruce up and re-dedicate a pair of time- and weather-scarred demilitarized battle tanks sitting sentry at local veterans’ memorial sites. The tanks, a M60A3 ...

On 16 December 1963 Alpha Company, 40th Armor equipped with the M41 light tank, served with the 171st Infantry Brigade at Ladd Air Force Base, Alaska from 16 December 1963 to 13 November 1972.

He was a gunner on an M5 light tank assigned to the 4th Armored Division of Gen. George S. Patton Jr.’s 3rd Army when he landed on Utah Beach in June 1944, two weeks after the D-Day Normandy ...

The M5 saw action in the Italian Campaign, as well as in operations in Northwest Europe. The M5 entered production in late 1942, with subsequent runs of upgraded variants in 1943 and 1944. The M6 ...