My heel digs into the tank's floor. The two-stroke diesel spews black smoke as it sputters to life; metal creaks and groans as we crawl forward. Nicknamed Easy Eight, the M4A2E8 Sherman was a ...

After training in the Abbot and an FV 432 APC, it was on to the tank piece de resistance - the venerable Sherman M4A3E8, nicknamed "Easy Eight" and made popular by Brad Pitt in the movie ...

Everything tastes like diesel and dirt when you drive a Sherman tank. I try to relay this observation ... big diesel engines drive this Sherman Easy Eight — drown out everything else as we ...

It was a good tank with decent armor and firepower ... Later models of the Sherman, such as the M4A3E8 Easy Eight, were equipped with the longer and more powerful 76 mm M1 gun.

WWII exhibition.The 1944 M4A3(76)W HVSS Sherman tank, nicknamed the “Easy Eight,” was delivered this morning from its current home in Ligonier, Pa."There are a lot of tanks around the country ...

Before we get to the details, check out this video: %embed1% Drive A Tank's Sherman Easy 8 tank now has a completely new cannon simulator that is an exact replica of the original Sherman 76mm M1A2 ...

He commanded a platoon of five M4A3 Sherman tanks. The tank was called the "Easy Eight" and had a crew of five -- a commander, driver, assistant driver, gunner and loader. Semmes said the Easy ...

Key point: The M-4 Sherman was easy to mass-produce, but easy to destroy. The M-4 Sherman was the workhorse medium tank of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps during World War II. It fought in every th ...