Key Points and Summary - The M48 Patton, America's first main battle tank, was introduced in 1952 to dominate the early Cold War battlefield. -It served as the armored backbone for the U.S. Army and ...

At the U.S. Army First Division Museum in Wheaton, Illinois, you can see a real-life version of the M48 Patton Tank. The nickname on the turret reads “Snoopy,” but this was anything but a sleepy ...

Meet the M48 Tank: After the Second World War, the United States military began to develop a new medium tank to replace the M26 Pershing and M4 Sherman. The result was the M46, the first tank to be ...