The first armed airplane with a flight deck instead of an open cockpit, armed with bombs, and 5 .30 caliber machine guns was the B-17 flying fortress it had a distinctive and enormous tail to control its stability during high-altitude bombing. These planes in the pacific earned a deadly reputation with the Japanese 12,731 were built. They were well-known for their capacity to stay in-flight after taking ruthless poundings. The M-4 Sherman was the workhorse medium tank of the U.s army and Marine Corps during World War 2. It was used to fight in North Africa, the Pacific and Europe 49,234 were built. The Sherman’s power plant was a 400- horsepower gas engine that, combined with the ammo on board, could transform the tank into a hellish inferno
