A comprehensive photographic record of America's World War II tanks. The story of the armored battalions' equipment, designed with incredible ingenuity and produced with unparalleled speed, unfolds in this book, which also recounts the adventures of the valorous Americans who rode these machines into combat on the battlefields of World War II.

This is a comprehensive photographic record of America's World War II tanks. Almost overnight, the United States Army went from having a near-nonexistent armored force to fielding a world-class operation. The story of the armored battalions' equipment, designed with incredible ingenuity and produced with unparalleled speed, unfolds in this book, which also recounts the adventures of the valorous Americans who rode these machines into combat on the battlefields of World War II.