Here’s What You Need To Remember: Instead of holding tank-destroyers in corps reserve, it became standard practice for commanders to attach a tank-destroyer battalion to front-line infantry divisions.

American tank destroyers were created to counter massed German armor—not to replace tanks. This video reexamines how that doctrine worked in practice, where vehicles like the M10, M18, and M36 proved ...

As enemy armor became tougher, conventional anti-tank guns proved too static to match the pace of battle. The proposed solution was speed—self-propelled tank destroyers that could move with the front ...

Sgt. Melvin Anderson’s life ended 74 years ago, in a rain of murderous German artillery fire that set his M10 tank destroyer ablaze in the battle of Hürtgen Forest.

A teddy bear which travelled in an M10 tank destroyer during the Second World War is going under the hammer. The toy, which is said to have been at the Battle of the Bulge, took part in the Allies’ ...

As a result, half of the battalions converted to towed, 76-millimeter M5 guns similar in effectiveness to the M10’s own gun. These supplemented the companies of lighter 57-millimeter guns integrated ...