[Mat_Helm]

The M4A3 “Jumbo” Sherman's started using the 76mm higher velocity guns that could penetrate Panther and Tiger Armor at point blank ranges, but not at distance where the panther and tiger could kill a Sherman from 800 yards out. The M4A3 also had the V8 “Easy Eight” ford engines and were fast. The 76mm gun had a longer chamber for the armor piercing high velocity rounds but fired a smaller high explosive round than the 75mm gun for anti personal work. In Fury they are in an M4A3 that began to see action in 1944 and the other Sherman's were A1’s and or A2’s.

[RitchieAprile]

In 1969 when I joined 58 Engr Co at Fulda FRG our tracks were all M113 with gas engines. Had the Russians come we would have been riding a ‘Ronson’.. The conversion to diesel wasn’t complete until the 70’s.