Developed to counter the Soviet armored threat in the 1950s, the M48 Patton became a crucial American main battle tank during the Cold War. -The mission of the tank was clear: beat the Russians in a ...

That same March, the M48A3s of the Marine Corps 3d Tank Battalion landed, the first to arrive in Vietnam. Considering that an M48 weighs approximately 49.5 tons and taking into consideration the ...

The M48 was deployed during the Vietnam War but it was of limited use due to the lack of tank-on-tank battles. Six hundred M48s served in Vietnam . They mainly protected convoys and roads.

The M48 Patton and all of its variants were not alone in Vietnam. Though not a tank, the M113 Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) was the counterpart to the M48 and a necessity for U.S. troops in the war.

But later that day, as he drove his M48 tank, ... The Marines had been the first ground troops sent to South Vietnam in March, only five months before. From Aug. 18, 1965, to Aug. 25, ...

As far as combat use of the Patton by American troops was concerned, the M48 was the most heavily used tank by the U.S. – and her Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) allies – during the ...