M48 Patton - American Steel

In 1950 the US Army needed a tank for Götterdämmerung, a world consuming battle against the Soviet hordes anticipated to flood through Fulda Gap and the North German plains. It's 2024 and we're here because that conflict never came.

But the M48, the last of a series of tanks to bear the Patton name, would go on to fight major tank battles in the service of many armies, and would represent the US in Vietnam.