TDI Friday Read: Tank Warfare In World War II

American troops advance under the cover of M4 Sherman tank ‘Lucky Legs II’ during mop up operations on Bougainville, Solomon Islands, March 1944. [National Archives/ww2dbase]

In honor of Tony Buzbee, who has parked a fully-functional vintage World War II era M-4 Sherman tank in front of his house in Houston, Texas (much to the annoyance of his home owner’s association), here is a selection of posts addressing various aspects of tank warfare in World War II for you weekend leisure reading.

https://dupuyinstitute.org/2016/08/23/counting-holes-in-tanks-in-tunisia/

U.S. Tank Losses and Crew Casualties in World War II

Tank Loss Rates in Combat: Then and Now

https://dupuyinstitute.org/2017/04/03/was-kursk-the-largest-tank-battle-in-history/

A2/D2 Study

Against the Panzers

And, of course, Chris Lawrence has written the largest existing book on the largest tank battle in history, Kursk.

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Shawn Woodford
Shawn Woodford

Shawn Robert Woodford, Ph.D., is a military historian with nearly two decades of research, writing, and analytical experience on operations, strategy, and national security policy. His work has focused on special operations, unconventional and paramilitary warfare, counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, naval history, quantitative historical analysis, nineteenth and twentieth century military history, and the history of nuclear weapon development. He has a strong research interest in the relationship between politics and strategy in warfare and the epistemology of wargaming and combat modeling.

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