When Essex engineer Roland Hopper retired he described himself as "bored to tears" and disappeared into his garden shed. Ten years later he had designed and built a highly-detailed model of a World ...
Key Point: Armor and lethality don’t tell the whole story. American tanks in World War II were generally inferior to their German counterparts. German tanks boasted better armor protection and more ...
A retiree built an eight-foot-long remote-control transporter lorry complete with a tank on it as his wife had taken up golf and he was “bored to tears”. Roland Hopper, 79, used the controls to drive ...
For its part, the M-4 was good in 1942, adequate in 1943 and totally outclassed by 1944. Unfortunately for American tankers, the war lasted until 1945. American tanks in World War II were generally ...