http://cmmodsiii.greenasjade.net/?p=2488 Sun, 15 May 2022 08:06:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.21 http://cmmodsiii.greenasjade.net/?p=2488#comment-33 Wed, 28 Oct 2015 19:16:25 +0000 http://cmmodsiii.greenasjade.net/?p=2488#comment-33 It’s interesting what you say about Shermans at war; my mother was engaged to a trooper of the 4/7th Royal Dragoon Guards in the Normandy campaign, they were equipped with various Shermans and of course every 4th tank was a Firefly. The impression my mum got (and related to me after the war), was that they also thought the Sherman was a great tank – until they took it into combat with the Germans in 1944, in other words it was a great peacetime tank! They lived in constant fear of being easily outgunned (except the firefly, his tank was a regular Sherman) and especially out-armoured which applied to everyone. Pretty soon they nicknamed the Sherman as the “ronson” because it burnt so easily. The Germans called it the “tommy cooker”. I think it was a great tank in the Pacific and in N. Africa, after that it became a death trap. Sheer numbers of course prevailed – but at an enormous cost.

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