The M1-series of main battle tanks have come to symbolize modern America’s armored might on the battlefield. Incorporating all the lessons of more than fifty years of armoured warfare when it ...

The US says it has identified the remains of a World War Two tank commander who was killed fighting in Germany in November 1944. Lt Gene F Walker was battling Nazi forces near the German-Belgian ...

Second Lt. Gene F. Walker was killed in Germany in 1944, nearly three months after his daughter was born. She learned in July that his remains had been identified.

According to the U.S. Army, the attack killed Walker instantly, but heavy fighting in the area prevented surviving crews from retrieving his body. Later, his remains were hard to identify.

U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Gene F. Walker Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Walker was 27 and commanded an M4 Sherman tank in November 1944 when his unit battled German forces near Hücheln, Germany, and ...

Just shy of his 99th birthday, World War II tank commander Vernon Foster vividly recalls hellish battles in France and Germany, being blasted in the face by shrapnel, logging 2,600 miles in the ...