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How Airplane Engines Turned American Tanks Into Battlefield Beasts
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How Airplane Engines Turned American Tanks Into Battlefield Beasts
A Problem No One Knew How to Solve In the spring of 1939, at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, U.S. Army officers faced a grim reality. American tanks could only crawl at 12 miles per hour—barely faster than a running man—while German armored vehicles were crossing Europe at twice that speed. The U.S. Army had only a few hundred tanks, far behind the thousands produced overseas. Colonel William Christie knew that unless America found a quick …
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