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AFV #5: American

105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage T19, North Africa.

105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage T19.

T19 supported by a M2 halftrack in action in North Africa.

T19 Howitzer Motor Carriage.

105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage T19.

Heavy Tank T20E3.

Heavy Tank T20.

Heavy Tank T22.

Heavy Tank T22E1.

Medium Tank T23.

Medium Tank T23.

Heavy Tank T23 pilot model.

Heavy Tank T23 production model.

Heavy Tank T23E3.

Heavy Tank T25.

Heavy Tank T25E1.

Heavy Tank T30.

75mm Howitzer Motor Carriage T30.

M4A3(76) medium tank firing to smoke out a German field entrenchment between the buildings at the crossroads of Schillingsstrasse and Trierbfchweg in Gürzenich in the Rhineland. 629th U.S. Tank Destroyer Battalion.

Knocked out Sherman tank between Latina and Terracina Italy, June 1944.

Close up view of the same knocked out Sherman tank.

At left, another view of the same tank as well as two more knocked out Shermans at the right.

M4 medium tank from Combat Command B of the 3rd U.S. Armored Division on the Sangerhausen-Eisleben road  at Wimmelburg on 13 April 1945 where Allied prisoners of war from Oflag IX A/Z  had been abandoned by their German guards.

M4 medium tank moves up from the Lingayen beachhead to launch the offensive toward Manila. 9 January 1945.

Modified M4A3 medium tanks on display at the Watertown Arsenal. 1945.

A 75-ton stiff-leg derrick at Berth 11, Castle Island Terminal, as it loads M4 medium tanks for shipment.

Scissor bridge mounted on a M4 medium tank chassis.

M4 tank-dozer is shown ramming a hedgerow somewhere in Normandy.  23rd Armored Engineer Battalion, 3rd Armored Division. 13 July 1944.

Fifth Army M5A1 light and M4A4 medium tanks, in Coreno, Italy, one hour after its fall,  await word to continue advance.  14 May 1944.

M4 DD medium tank lands on Red Beach in Southern France, U.S. Seventh Army. 15 August 1944.

After being completely submerged in the Meuse River for seven weeks, this British Firefly Vc medium tank was retrieved by personnel of the U.S. 478th Ordnance Evacuation Company, using two M25 tank transporters. Marche railhead, Belgium, 3 March 1945.

A Marine poses next to "Killer" a 4th Marine Tank Battalion M4A2 loaded with a "war trophy" Japanese Type 94 Tankette, Operation Flintlock, Namur Island, 2 February 1944.

M20 scout car.

90mm Gun Motor Carriage M36 "Jackson" tank destroyer on Rue François de Curel in the French city of Metz. Company ‘C,’ 607th Tank Destroyer Battalion. 20 November 1944.

155mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M41.

Caterpillar D7 with LeTourneau R7 PCU and LeTourneau XD7 Bulldozer assisting a International Harvester M426 5-ton 4x2 tractor truck out of the mud at an Ordnance Depot,  Normandy, France.

An M3 Light Tank barrels through a water obstacle during a training exercise at Fort Knox, Kentucky, in June 1942. The Stuart served in the African, European, and Pacific theaters of World War II. Undergunned and already obsolescent by 1942, the Stuart was so mechanically sound by comparison with their own tanks that the British, who bought many, nicknamed it the "Honey."

Mine Exploder T10, Aberdeen Proving Ground, June 7, 1944.

Lined up in a snow-covered field, near St. Vith, Belgium, are the M4 medium tanks  of the 40th Tank Bn., 7th Armored Division. December 1944.

Division Artillery camp at front, radios and telephone on jeep, Attu, Aleutians, 1943.

M4 flamethrower tanks, Okinawa, 1945.

DUKWs.

DUKW drivetrain.

M4 medium tank, "CAIRO", Iwo Jima.

M4A1 (76mm) medium tank with hedgerow cutters in Pont Herbert, Normandy.

Infantrymen with a tank of the 11th Armored Division, Third Army, advancing through a smoke-filled street in Germany.

M5 light tank advancing into the center of Kronach, April 1945.

M4A3(75mm) medium tanks of the 9th Armored Division in Westhausen, Germany, April 10, 1945.

T28/T95 Super Heavy Tank with M22 Light Tank and T92 HMC on M25 Tank Transporter.

An M18 GMC in action on Okinawa during the US invasion of the island in the spring of 1945.

American Journalist and War Correspondent, Ernie Pyle (center) converses with the crew of a Sherman tank belonging to 191st Tank Battalion at the Anzio Beachhead in 1944.

Trucks of the 1st Infantry Division of the United States Army are loaded into a Landing Ship Tank (LST) in Dorset, United Kingdom, on 5 June 1944. The LST formed part of Group 30 of the LST Flotilla. The 1st Division was one of the two divisions that stormed Omaha Beach in Normandy, France on D-Day suffering high casualties. It secured Formigny and Caumont in the beachhead. 

Loading another 1st Infantry Division truck the LST. The vehicle in this photo is the same vehicle at far left in the previous photo.



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