The Armor Branch exists to close with and destroy enemy forces using fire, maneuver, and shock effect, or to repel an assault by fire and counterattack. The Armor Branch is the combat arm of decision, ...

On June 5, 1944, in the hills north of Rome, C Company’s Shermans from the 752nd Tank Battalion push through choking woods ...

The Army's latest field manual for tank operations is loaded with new tactics and procedures for drone warfare. But the best tactic, the manual says, is to shoot them with a tank. The Army has solved ...

Ordered to hold vital hills east of Stettin, Wallin's mortar platoon sets up in a farm courtyard and rains shells on a ...

Army ROTC’s Alpha Company ran drills on CU-Boulder’s South Campus on Thursday, January 25th focusing on platoon movement and various field tactics. Cadets were split up into several platoons with ...

LAST TUESDAY NIGHT, Charlie Company 2-505 (82nd Airborne Division) left “the wire” and departed Patrol Base Olson to perform a cordon-and-search operation in a neighborhood where a notorious al Qaeda ...

BECK, Robert, Sr. On or about July 14, 1944, nearby the town of La Haye du Puits, France, Lieutenant Beck led his platoon across a mined battle field, under enemy fire, to rescue a tank disabled by ...

Under the cover of darkness on the night of June 16, 1944, almost 40 tanks of the Japanese 9th Tank Regiment moved into position on Saipan. Their objective was to surprise and overrun the 2nd Marine ...