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 ...

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 ...

Easy Eight,' they called it ... I need to have and own my own Sherman tank.’” The center was in the market as well. Officials contacted their museum partner, the Smithsonian Institution ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - When most people think about slowing down in their 90s, Gordon Azevedo is shifting gears—literally. The 96-year-old and his longtime friend, Mike Lopez, spent over a ...

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.

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 ...

Easy to produce and maintain, the Sherman out-lasted more complex, less reliable German tanks on the battlefield and helped liberate millions. Now you can one of these historic art deco tanks ...

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 ...

U.S. Marines would have to capture eight square miles of heavily fortified ... infantrymen actually feared: the modified Sherman M4A3 "Zippo" Tank, "the one weapon that caused the Japs to leave ...