The M47 Patton Tank PT-76 Jim's hard-earned experience of soldiering

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The M47 Patton Tank PT-76 Jim's hard-earned experience of soldieringThe American M47 Patton is one of the least known tanks of the Cold War, but in this meticulously researched new book well known US vehicle historian David Doyle reveals its history. With the real threat of World War III imminent, the M47 was rushed into production in 1951 as an interim improved medium tank. Thankfully, the feared global conflict was averted, and for the United States, who developed the M47, it proved to be an interim tank indeed,