US Tanks of WW2
Before World War II, the US Army didn't think tanks should fight other tanks. Instead, that job was assigned to the tank-destroyer class of vehicles.
These vehicles were fast and had powerful guns but sacrificed a lot of armor to achieve such a speed. Meanwhile, the mission of the tank was to support infantry.
Based on this theory, the Army went with mass producing more than 60000 of Infantry support tanks.
The two contrasting tank philosophies, And the Great Depression of early 1930s that depleted the R&D money, idled The American tank force until the war jumpstarted it.
Here is the top 5 US tanks of the second world war.
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