Contributed by Nicholas Hopkins
A Glimpse of the lives of American soldiers constructed with materials of the 3rdArmored Division Archives, housed at the University of Illinois Archives Research Center.
![“Sherman Tank” RS 26/20/70, MMischnick Sherman, Germany, February, 15-26, 1945.](https://archives.library.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/92/2013/11/m4-Sherman-tank.jpg)
Experiencing WWII from the inside of a M4 Sherman tank was famously dangerous. Henry J. Earl retells his experience with the Sherman in a 1983 letter to Lt Colonel Haynes Dugan, one of the G-2 intelligence officers for the 3rd Armored Division. Continue reading “A Poor Defense: Sherman tanks in WW2”