WW2: Tank Warfare

PowerPoint Show by Andrew

Tanks along an icy road in the Ardennes Forest during the Battle of the Bulge.

An American patrol moves toward a smoldering German tank, with its crew still inside, Belgium, December 1944.

An American soldier slogs through deep mud carrying ammunition to a waiting Sherman tank of 3rd Armored Division during the battle for control of the Stolberg area, Germany, 1944.

Dead soldiers sprawled on a tank in northwest Europe, 1944.

American soldiers of Patton's Third Army stand in front of their Sherman tank while rolling up a Nazi flag they have taken as a trophy after the capture of Bitburg, February 1945.

A tank crew prepares a Sherman M4 for battle "somewhere in Germany," spring 1945.

The body of a Japanese soldier lies in front of a smoldering Japanese tank -- mute testament to the savage nature of the fight for control of Saipan in 1944.

An American tank crew rests in the town of Avranches, France, 1944.

An American tank rolls over a Nazi banner laid out in the street after its crew helped take the town of Lembach, spring 1945.

American soldier Julian Patrick from Kentucky, member of the U.S. 3rd Armored Division, killed in action inside his tank, March 6, 1945.

American M4 Sherman tank bogged down in the mud near Miturno during the campaign to drive German forces from Italy, 1944.

American soldiers widen dirt road near Minturno, Italy, 1944.

An American tank races along during desert fighting between U.S. and German forces in the El Guettar Valley, North Africa, 1943.

American sergeant stands guard beside a German-dug tank trap, Normandy, summer 1944.

A young German boy sits beside the road as a tank of the U.S. 9th Armored Division passes through his village on its way to Berlin, spring 1945.

Villagers chat with American soldiers after being freed from Japanese occupation while Sherman tanks of the 1st Cavalry Division follow the retreating enemy, Philippines, October 1944.

American tank crew checks its map in Normandy, 1944.

American GIs inspect an overturned German tank, after it toppled into a crater made by a bomb dropped right in front of it by an Allied plane, December 1944.

American soldiers aboard a tank in a snow-covered Ardennes field, Battle of the Bulge, December 1944.

American infantrymen, left behind to mop up last stronghold of Nazis in Falaise Gap area of northwestern France, line up in front of wrecked German tank with a captured swastika flag, 1944.