The
Medium Tank M4 was the main
tank designed and built by the
United States for
allied forces in
World War II, totaling roughly 50,000 tanks plus thousands more derivative vehicles under different model numbers with different abilities. In the
United Kingdom lend-lease M4s were dubbed
Sherman after
Union General
William Tecumseh Sherman, continuing a practice of naming American tanks after famous Generals. The British name became popular in the US and the two names are often combined into
M4 Sherman or shortened to
Sherman. After WWII, Shermans served the US (in the
Korean War) and many other nations world-wide and saw combat in many wars in the late
20th century.
The
North American P-51 Mustang was an
American long-range single-seat
fighter aircraft that entered service with
Allied air forces in the middle years of
World War II and became one of the conflict's most successful and recognizable aircraft. The definitive version of the single-seat fighter was powered by a single two-stage
supercharged V-12-1650
Rolls-Royce Merlin engine and armed with six
.50 caliber (12.7 mm)
M2 machine guns. Mustangs remained in service with some air forces until the early 1980s.
The
T-34 is a Soviet
medium tank produced from 1940 to 1958. It was the world's best
tank when the
Soviet Union entered the
Second World War, and although its armour and armament were surpassed by later WWII tanks, it is credited as the war's most effective, efficient and influential design. First produced at the
KhPZ factory in Kharkov (
Kharkiv,
Ukraine), it was the mainstay of Soviet
armoured forces throughout World War II, and widely exported afterwards. It was the most-produced tank of the war, and the second most-produced tank of all time, after its successor, the
T-54/55 series. The T-34 was still in service with twenty-seven countries as late as 1996.
The
Iowa-class battleships were the biggest, the most powerful, and the last
battleships built for the
United States Navy. Four were built in the early 1940s for
World War II, these were the
USS Iowa (BB-61),
New Jersey (BB-62),
Missouri (BB-63),
Wisconsin (BB-64) and two uncompleted ships. All were decommissioned, then recommissioned in the 1980s and decommissioned again in the 1990s. The most famous ship of the class
Missouri was the location of the
Japanese surrender at the end of
World War II. All four completed ships are still afloat today, three act as museums, the fourth is also destined to become a museum.
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