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Tanks of Fury...on the Smithsonian Channel...

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In Reply to: RE: "Fury" - entertaining but unrealistic posted by Eldragon on December 11, 2014 at 08:26:49

Delves into the different versions of the Sherman tanks and there improvements through the war...

The original versions had smaller projectiles and could not penetrate the 4" thick Tiger Tank armor...(Sherman's had 3" armor)...

The biggest advantage the Tigers had was 88 MM shells...they blew the crap out of the Sherman's...It was not until late in the war, when the US put on a new cannon with a larger projectile that could penetrate the Tigers armor ...

The tank in Fury was one with the bigger cannon...AND last known running Tiger tank was used in the movie for 1-day...the museum curators were on sight and they were a bunch of nervous nellies...

Next to the Sherman, (Bulldog)...the Tiger, (Mastiff)...it is a pretty easy decision which dog I would pick in that fight...

thanks
Mark

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M4A1 - Mossback 11:14:51 12/12/14 (0)
Ft Benning 1973 I served with a TECOM unit running a rocket range testing anti-tank rockets. A large number of WWII tanks and other large armored vehicles littered the range as "tagets". Nearby was a perfect M4A1 nearly intact. We would hid to "smoke" or get out of the weather inside it sometime. Three young guys fit inside OK but it was sobering to think what thousands of young men had to endure 25 years earlyer.
The darn thing had a radial air plane motor in it!
RE: They got into trouble during the Russian winter though. - Eldragon 08:36:55 12/12/14 (1)
...but for sure, the equipment Germans made was vastly superior at the time.
�Somebody was always controlling who got a chance and who didn�t. - Charles Bukowski
- Saw a short Stalingrad documentary about two huge . . . - Billy Wonka 22:16:57 12/13/14 (0)
  disadvantages Germans had during winter. 1) Not a lot of layered clothing but the actual killer was the requirement to wear a steel pot at all times. The steel pot acted as a radiator and kept German body heat much lower that Russians who wore a lot of woolen headgear instead of steel. 2) Germans were just dropping dead where they stood or sat. They sent special teams to autopsy hundreds of deceased and found nearly ZERO body fat. They could not retain heat or feed their hearts. In Germany they hustled out a "paste" (think potted meat) to help offset the demands of their metabolisms. When the paste was issued even more troops died. Their stomachs and systems couldn't handle the dosage of new fats. Bad time to be a German ground pounder.

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