The Nightmare America Strapped on Top of an M4 Sherman Tank

World War 2 became a catalyst for weapons that had been unimaginable only a few years before, but one of them would shake infantrymen to their very core. It was the multiple rocket launcher, a spectacularly devastating tool that was as effective on the enemy's morale as it was on its numbers.
From the shrieking horror of the German Nebelwerfer that routed the green US recruits at the Battle of Kasserine Pass to the dreary wails of Stalin's organ that sent German soldiers running for their lives when they heard its uncanny sounds outside the gates of Moscow, the emerging technology proved to be a terrifyingly effective weapon.
After the Americans saw the sheer power of the German and Soviet rocket launchers, they decided to create their version. But while the Nebelwerfer was a towed launcher and the Katyusha was installed on a truck, the US decided to take it a step further and mount their novel weapon on a Sherman tank.
With the mobility and heavy armor of the mighty Sherman, the T34 Calliope rocket launcher would soon become the war's most terrifying rocket launcher system.
As the Germans were eventually forced into an ever more desperate defensive war, the Calliope would strike fear into the last Nazi bastions, its maddening song resonating through the Saarland and spearheading the advance of the Allies while portending the inevitable fall of the Third Reich…
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