Just a few miles from the area we are camping in is the Yuma Proving Grounds (an army facility). As you enter the facility from the east side you find two large Howitzers and a short distance from there a display of US tanks along side the road. The first tank in the group was a Sherman tank used in World War II. The same type of tank that my father road on top of and walked along side of through much of his military campaign in Europe. At first I was surprised to see how small the tank was but I remember that my father talked about how nimble the tank was in the small villages and hamlets throughout Europe. He mentioned on more than one occasion the difference between the German Tiger tank and the much smaller Sherman's used by the US. The Tigers had superior gun power but the size was often their undoing in these small towns.
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