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Lafayette Green Pool (July 23, 1919 – May 30, 1991) was an American tank-crew and tank-platoon commander in World War II and is widely recognized as the US tank ace of aces, [2] [page needed] credited with 12 confirmed tank kills and 258 total armored vehicle and self-propelled gun kills, over 1,000 German soldiers killed and 250 more taken as prisoners of war, [3] accomplished in only 81 ...
Box office. $211.8 million [3] Fury is a 2014 American war film written, directed, and co-produced by David Ayer. It stars Brad Pitt with Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, and Jon Bernthal as members of an American tank crew fighting in Nazi Germany during the final weeks of the European theater of World War II.
World War II: 1941 52 T-34: Dmitry Fyodorovich Lavrinenko was a Soviet tank commander and Hero of the Soviet Union. He was the highest scoring tank ace of the Allies during World War II. Lavrinenko destroyed 52 tanks in just 2.5 months of fierce fighting in 1941. Alfred Nickolls: United Kingdom: World War II: 1940 – 1943 30 M4 Sherman
List of World War II aces from the United States. This is a list of fighter aces in World War II from United States. For other countries see List of World War II flying aces by country. "Ace in a day" 14 December 1944. KIFA 5 June 1945 [ 25 ] Claimed 6 additional victories and was awarded NC during Korean War.
Panzer ace (tank ace) is a contemporary term used in English-speaking popular culture to describe highly decorated German tank ("panzer") commanders and crews during World War II. The Wehrmacht as well as British and American militaries did not recognise the concept of an "ace" during the war. The similar term, tank ace has been used post-war ...
Sahara (1943 American film) Sahara. (1943 American film) Sahara is a 1943 American action war film directed by Zoltán Korda and starring Humphrey Bogart as an American tank commander in Libya who, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a German Afrika Korps battalion during ...
The Admiral Was a Lady. Albert S. Rogell. Comedy. End of war readjustment of returning American servicemen and servicewomen. 1950. United States. American Guerrilla in the Philippines. Fritz Lang. Japanese occupation of the Philippines filmed on location.
When Trumpets Fade is a 1998 HBO television movie directed by John Irvin and starring Ron Eldard, Frank Whaley, Zak Orth, and Dylan Bruno. First released on June 27, 1998, the film is set in World War II during the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest .