M10 Wolverine Tank Destroyer
A story of mobile firepower and thin armor told through the crews who fought from its open turret and the enemies who tried to stop it.
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M104 Wolverine Bridgelayer
A story of mobility under armor, told through the engineers and armored brigades that depended on a bridge to keep the advance moving.
M109 Self-Propelled Howitzer
A story of long-range firepower and survivability told through the crews who rode this tracked gun into modern armored battles.
M18 Hellcat Tank Destroyer
A story of speed, improvisation, and thin armor told through the crews and battles that defined it.
M26 Pershing
A story of firepower and adaptation told through the crews who took the Pershing from the ruins of Germany to the hills of Korea.
M4 Sherman
A story of adaptation, reliability, and hard lessons in steel, told through the crews who fought from its turret.
M41 Walker Bulldog
A story of mobility, firepower, and adaptation told through a light tank and the crews who drove it into the heart of the Cold War’s proxy wars.
M551 Sheridan
A story of airborne firepower and fragile protection told through the crews and battles that defined it.
M60 Patton
A story of survivability, firepower, and adaptation told through the Marine crews and desert battles that defined it.
M65 Atomic Cannon
A story of nuclear firepower and uneasy deterrence told through the crews, observers, and test shots that defined the United States’ only nuclear gun.
M88 Hercules
A story of hard-learned recovery, brute-force engineering, and keeping broken armor in the fight when everything else says it should be left behind.
March on Yorktown begins
One year later, on September 28th, 1781, a combined American and French army moved out from around Williamsburg and advanced toward British positions at Yorktown, Virginia.
Mark IV Tank
The Mark IV tank was not fast, refined, or comfortable, but it was the machine that helped make Cambrai one of the defining armored battles of the First World War.
Metz falls to Third Army
In Europe, the fortified city of Metz had long been viewed as a tough nut to crack, with layers of forts dating back to earlier German rule.
Meuse-Argonne final offensive push
As the First World War neared its close, American forces in France were still locked in brutal combat.
Meuse-Argonne Offensive opens
On September 26th, 1918, the American Expeditionary Forces launched the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the largest United States campaign of the First World War and one of the biggest in the nation’s military history.
Minuteman III ICBM
A story of survivability and instant readiness told through the crews who sat on alert and the crises they hoped would never come.
New Mexico-class Battleships
A story of firepower, adaptation, and endurance told through the gun crews, lookouts, and engineers who carried these older battleships into the heart of the Pacific War.