Speed over armor. Agility over brute force. The M18 Hellcat wasn’t built to take hits — it was built to never get hit. In 1944, this lightning-fast American tank destroyer took the field and rewrote ...
Amid World War II’s shifting battlefield tactics, the U.S. Army ditched slow, towed anti-tank guns in favor of fast-moving predators like the M18 Hellcat. Designed for rapid strikes and aggressive ...