At the U.S. Army First Division Museum in Wheaton, Illinois, you can see a real-life version of the M48 Patton Tank. The nickname on the turret reads “Snoopy,” but this was anything but a sleepy ...

Few American generals have left such an indelible mark on military history as George S. Patton. "Old Blood and Guts," as he was affectionately known due to his matter-of-fact and typically exuberant ...

Key Points and Summary - The M48 Patton, America's first main battle tank, was introduced in 1952 to dominate the early Cold War battlefield. -It served as the armored backbone for the U.S. Army and ...

Even as the M47 entered production, the U.S. military began the development of an entirely new design. This resulted in the introduction of the M48 Patton. However, like the previous U.S. tanks, the ...

Technology, in all its forms, is a very fickle thing. So many of us are desperate to keep up with the latest upgrades, even if they're only minor enhancements to iterations that came before. If only ...

Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, the United States Army provided regular status reports to both its interior members and the American public through a half-hour documentary television show called ...

Crane operations contractors carried out a heavy lift and rig operation on an M48 Patton tank Dec. 19, 2019, in front of Patton Hall, USARCENT headquarters, at Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, S.C.

The Flying Heritage Collection’s new M48A1 Patton tank has taken the long way around to its final destination. The tank was built in the United States and then sold to the Kingdom of Jordan in Western ...