TWENTYNINE PALMS, Califs -- On the 1st Tank Battalion ramp, a special moment is being shared. A man walks carefully, but assuredly ascends the ramp. He’s moving toward a tank. When he arrives ...

The last tanks assigned to 1st Tank Battalion depart Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, July 6, 2020. (U.S. Marine Corps/ Sgt. Courtney White) ...

The 1st Tank Battalion at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California, was the latest to retire its tanks on Friday.

The last tanks assigned to 1st Tank Battalion depart Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, July 6, 2020. Sgt. Courtney White/Marine Corps) The Marine Corps ...

That move brought to an end the USMC 1st Tank Battalion, which was first activated on November 1, 1941, at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and was attached to the 1st Marine Division.

WASHINGTON — The Army’s 761st Tank Battalion, known as the Black Panthers, was the first Black tank unit to fight in combat in World War II and will be the subject of a documentary to air ...

On April 28, 1918, the 1st Light Tank Battalion was organized at Bourg, France, with Lieutenant Colonel George S. Patton, Jr., in command.

1 / 10 Show Caption + Hide Caption – An M1 Abrams’ assigned to the 1st Battalion, 35th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, fires on the tank line with ...

Paul L. Bates, the white colonel who commanded the first black tank battalion to enter combat in World War II, died Tuesday at his home in Dunedin, Fla. He was 86. The cause was cancer, said a daug… ...