In the summer of 1942, the British Eighth Army was losing the war in North Africa. Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps had smashed ...

Dave Kovach’s decades-long pursuit to honor the pride of Berwick — the World War II fighting machine, the Stuart tank — reached a pinnacle recently with the opening of a permanent museum in the ...

BERWICK, Pa. — The pride runs deep in the borough of Berwick for the role this community played in World War II. Stuart tanks were built at the American Car and Foundry Plant. At that time, nine ...

BERWICK, Pa. — Nearly 78 years ago to the day, the last Stuart tank rolled off the assembly line at American Car and Foundry Company in Berwick. Craig Shepperly's dad, Frederick worked around the ...

Northwest Area High School student Alan Lane gets the driver’s seat of a restored 1942 U.S. Army Jeep owned by Bill Hartzell, a World War II re-enactor and member of the board of the Stuart Tank ...

At the onset of World War II, the U.S. had no modern tanks equal to those used by the German military. Therefore, as an upgrade of the M2 Light Tank, the U.S. built the M3 Stuart in 1941, forming part ...

The M3/5 Stuart was a Second World War American tank that perenially saw its spotlight whittled away by the Sherman, and even the more well-known but considerably less adored M3 Lee. The Stuart was a ...

Spectators watch Stuart tanks in action during a previous World War II Weekend in Berwick. The Stuart Tank Memorial Association will host the eighth annual World War II Weekend July 18-20 at Test ...

Named after American Civil War Confederate general J. E. B. Stuart, the M3 Stuart saw a lot of action in World War II and subsequent conflicts that include the Korean War and 1959 Cuban Revolution.

American tanks in World War II were generally inferior to their German counterparts. German tanks boasted better armor protection and more firepower. But armor and lethality don’t tell the whole story ...