Historical Portrait
Tank crew standing in front of M-4 tank, Ft. Knox, Ky.
Archive record
1 transparency : color.
About this photograph
Photograph by Alfred T. Palmer showing a tank crew posed in front of an M-4 tank at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The record dates the image to 1939.
This dating presents a puzzle, as the M-4 Sherman tank was not developed until 1941 and did not enter production until 1942. The discrepancy may indicate an error in the archive's cataloguing, a misidentification of the tank model, or some other confusion in the record. Without additional documentation, the actual date and circumstances of the photograph remain unclear.
The transparency is held by the Library of Congress.
Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.
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