During the last two centuries, Ford has been ... widely-used medium tank by the U.S. Army and Allied Forces during World War II. But, before it powered Shermans, the GAA V8 started life with ...

Ford eventually cut the engine down to eight cylinders and a mere 18.0 liters when it pivoted to building engines for the M4 Sherman tank instead. The GAA V8 was an all-aluminum engine with a 5.40 ...

However, the Heavy Tank M6—America's first heavy tank ... a smaller variant of the Ford GAA V8 engine used in some M4 models. Although the engine was still rear-mounted, the Pershing featured ...