Thanks to a massive 90mm main gun, the M36 was one of the few American tank destroyers that could reliably engage any German armored vehicles, even at extreme distances. During the Second World War, ...

Rather than trying to match Germany’s heavy tanks pound for pound, the U.S. Army pursued a different answer to the armored ...

The M36 Jackson, a fearsome evolution of the Sherman chassis, became America’s most formidable tank hunter of World War II. Armed with a 90mm gun capable of punching through Panther and Tiger armor, ...

Key point: Tank-destroyers also taught the Army not to over-specialize. There was no need for multiple classes of tanks that were strong in one respect and weak in another. During the 1940s, the U.S.

There’s nothing easy about riding in a M36 Jackson tank destroyer. In a dirt field behind the American Heritage Museum in Hudson, the approximately 32-ton machine roars and exhales gas fumes. If ...