Comments by "John Burns" (@johnburns4017) on "M4 Sherman - The Workhorse of D-Day" video.

  1.  @majesticredneck4093  The Jumbo Sherman broke down a lot, as the mechanicals were not up to moving the increased weight.
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  2. He keeps mispronouncing the word "many", pronouncing it is as manny. He is wrong, as the Soviets produced more T-34s than the US produced Shermans.
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  3. This vid is aimed at the US market. The Sherman was nothing special at all. In fact outdated on introduction. In 1939 the US Army never even had a tank.
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  4.  @kaos1043  ?
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  5.  @kaos1043  I know all about the Ronson. Read Death Traps by Belton Cooper.
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  6.  @kaos1043  Read the book. Shocking indeed.
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  7.  @kaos1043  Lots I am sure
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  8. In Normandy, 90% of German armour was destroyed by the British. The British did use Shemans, as the US was throwing them at the British, but! They used the Sherman chassis to mount a Tiger killing British 17-pdr gun, not used by US forces. They used Cromwells, a better tank than the Sherman, the Churchill, again a better tank than the Sherman. The Challenger with a 17-pdr gun. The US had only one tank, the Sherman, with an inadequate 75mm gun.
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  9.  @peterson7082  The Cromwell was fast, using the superior RR engine. It had a lower profile. Roomy inside. Using the 6-pdr gun with APDS shells could knock out Tigers. Superb fast cross country running. The later Churchills had thicker armour than the Tiger. It could turn on its own axis. Very roomy inside. Highest survival rate of any tank in WW2. Even climb hills, as the Germans found out to their detriment in Tunisia as Churchills appeared when least expected. Using the 6-pdr gun with APDS shells it could knock out Tigers.
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  10.  @peterson7082  wrote: "Because the outstanding majority of German armor was encountered by British and Commonwealth forces until late June." That was the way Montgomery planned it. His left flank (the British) takes on the bulk of the German forces drawing it away from his right flank (the Americans), in order they break out forming an encirclement. That was the plan which happened. US forces were not capable of taking on massed German armour. They lacked experience and not with a 75mm infantry tank. US forces hardly met German armour in Normandy. The Americans had only faced one battalion of 40 assault guns in June (17th SS) and only one panzer divisions (2nd SS) in July. The only time the Americans faced a large number of tanks in Normandy was when the Germans counter attacked them in August during Mortain. Even then, the panzer divisions had been whittled down in strength after engaging Monty's forces around Caen and were nowhere near at the strength they were when they were fighting around Caen. In Normandy throughout the whole of June there was just one battalion of 40 assault guns in the ENTIRE American sector. These were the Stugs of 17th SS. There was no other armour in the whole of the American sector (apart from some few insignificant early war obsolete French tanks) until 2nd SS Das Reich turned up in front of St Lo in early July. At this time the British and Canadians had EIGHT panzer divisions (4 Waffen SS) in their sector. Two more Tiger battalions were sent to the British sector in early July 1944.
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  11.  @peterson7082  and?
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  12.  @peterson7082  the Cromwell was a common tank in British forces. It performed a multiple of roles.
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  13.  @peterson7082  So? The Cromwell.was a superior tank to Sherman. That is obvious. It was improved to the Comet which was the equivalent to the Pather.
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