The most famous of these was the Sherman tank, ... M1 Light Tank, M2 Light Tank. Rock Island Arsenal finds its roots in the Civil War era, and the company has since focused on artillery-type weapons.

The American T5 medium tank entered development in the 1930s and was built using the M2 light tank as a ... the Army developed the M3 Lee and M4 Sherman medium tanks. The T5/M2 was crewed by five ...

The 1943 Sherman Firefly, a model created by installing a 76.2 mm gun, was developed for the sole purpose of allowing it to compete with an emerging generation of more potent German tanks (an area ...