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The EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle was an armored personnel carrier prototype developed in the late 1970s. Built by the General Motors Corporation, the EM-50 was designed to blend in while conducting counterinsurgency, security, and stability operations in population centers. 
With the war’s end came the abolishment of slavery and Young’s family relocated to Ohio. Growing up, Young’s parents spent much of their resources educating him in all fields.
For this open house, the Collection and the National Armor and Cavalry Heritage Foundation are excited to showcase a few extra vehicles. First, we will have the storage bays housing the World War II German JagdPanther and Jagdtiger tank destroyers open for viewing. 
While not as effective as anti-tank guided missiles, the AT4 is less expensive and simpler to train on. In fact, all the instructions for the single-shot launcher are written on the side! 
However, the 46-ton Pershing used the Ford GAF 500 horsepower V8 engine, a slightly modified version of the standard 35-ton Sherman’s GAA engine with similar horsepower. This meant that the heavier Pershing suffered mobility issues due to its power to weight ratio. 
78 years ago during the Battle of the Bulge, Combat Command Reserve (CCR) of the 9th Armored Division fought a desperate battle to prevent German forces from reaching the vital crossroads town of Bastogne, Belgium. 
The German Wehrmacht began the attack with a 13 division assault. Many of these units were veterans pulled from fighting the Soviets on the Eastern Front. 
On the night of 31 August 1950, then-Sergeant First Class Ernest R. Kouma of A Co, 72nd Tank Bn was tasked to defend a crossing point of the Naktong River with two M26 Pershing tanks and two M19 gun motor carriages in support of A Co, 9th Infantry Regt, 2nd Infantry Division. 2/9
In that time we have moved over 180 armor artifacts into the building, with an additional 70+ large artifacts moved into our second building, the Armor & Cavalry Conservation Center. 
2/5 It featured a wide array of weapon and defensive systems. In 1981, the sole EM-50 was sent overseas to Italy for field testing. It ended up causing an international incident when it was inadvertently driven across the border to Czechoslovakia.
2/9 Stevon A. Booker, born in Michigan but raised in Pennsylvania, enlisted in the U.S. Army as a Tanker in 1988. Serving during the 1991 Gulf War, Booker stayed in the Army to make a career out of it. 
2/16 Growing up, Young’s parents spent much of their resources educating him in all fields. In 1884, he became only the 9th Black American to be accepted to the United States Military Academy at West Point, and would be only the third to graduate. 