Thank you for the correction; I picked up a wrong impression from the movie Patton (not that that would ever happen </sarcasm> ).Makes more sense; I always wondered how Hitler hoped to use captured US gasoline to power his thrust into the Bulge if his tanks were diesels. OTOH I wonder why Shermans were so notorious for catching fire compared to the German models - except of course for the fact that they were much better armored.
theythe latter were much better armored.
We had some design deficiencies in the Sherman. During the course of the war, designers added additional steel plates around fuel tanks and ammo storage bins as a short term fix, than redesigned these features for better protection.
These design changes helped, but never eliminated the problem. The higher energy German tank ammo still was very effective against our Sherman tanks.