Why Trooper Alec McKillop fired five shots at five German Panthers on June 14, 1944 — and destroyed them all[...] ...
During World War II, the British-designed 17-pounder anti-tank gun mounted in the Sherman Firefly offered the Allies a potent threat to the heavily‐armoured German Panther and Tiger tanks. The British ...
One was a British-built tank killer, the other an American all-rounder. Both changed the face of armored warfare. In this second part, we pit the Sherman Firefly against the Easy Eight—speed versus ...