THE GULF WAR: The Battle Front : Tank Warfare

Before the word of a halt in the U.S. offensive, a big tank battle had been reported under way west of the city of Basra. Pentagon sources said that 800 U.S. tanks and armored vehicles were bearing down on 250 to 300 Iraqi tanks. The LAST MAJOR TANK BATTLE involving U.S. forces occurred during the Battle of the Bulge from December, 1944, to January, 1945, when the Germans sent 1,000 tanks against a thinly held Allied sector in the Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg. The U.S. Army and its World War II Allies committed several thousand tanks and armored vehicles to that conflict.