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By comparison, the project's total cost by the end of 1945 was about 90% of the total spent on the production of US small arms (not including ammunition) and 34% of the total spent on US tanks during the same period.

A few days later, the evening Baghdad fell, I was on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital, driving past burning buildings, US tanks and the scattered bodies of Saddam's paramilitaries – fedayeen – and civilians.

Intermingled in the troop formations were WWII-era US tanks, jeeps and troop carriers.

After dark, the 29 men, three of them carried on stretchers, withdrew, covered by the arrival of US tanks.

At a range of one city block the US tanks knocked out the lead gun, killing its three crew members.

The Marines approached Obong-ni first, destroying resistance on the slope with an airstrike and a barrage from US tanks, but strong resistance caused heavy casualties, and they had to withdraw.

After the end of the Cold War, the Pentagon cut the number of Army troops in Europe to 29,000, from 213,000 in 1989, and withdrew the last US tank from Germany three years ago.

A US tank commander led his soldiers in a Native American war dance and told them to take the US flags off their gun turrets, saying: "We will be entering Iraq as an army of liberation, not domination".

Used properly - with infantry, engineers and close air support - they are still a crucial part of a military's capability, says former US tank officer Robert Forczyk, author of a forthcoming book about Kursk.

Earlier this year, the last US battle tanks left Europe.

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