The Sherman tanks of World War II were plentiful on the battlefield, ... because it was powered by a quintet of Chrysler car engines welded into one 30-cylinder behemoth.

The powerplant was based on aircraft engines from Wright, ... the Allies also needed a reliable tank. The Sherman’s finest hour came during the breakout from the Normandy bridgehead in July 1944.

Then, 1942 saw the nation develop the M4 Sherman tank. It was a medium tank, ... and a GM 12-cylinder or Ordnance Engine nine-cylinder diesel engine was utilized in a few rare models.

Ford's M4A3 Sherman tanks had V8 engines William Vandivert/Getty Images Ford manufactured 1,690 M4A3 Sherman tanks, each with a 4-cycle, 8-cylinder V8 inside that propelled the 68,000 pound ...

Harold Kihn, of Steinbach, Manitoba, proudly walked around his M4 Sherman tank before starting its diesel engines. ADVERTISEMENT "That's a 30-caliber machine gun and up on top is another 30 ...

Close to 49,500 Sherman tanks were mass-produced in U.S. factories supplying not just our Army, but the armed forces of all the Allies arrayed against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.