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but tank for tank, the Sherman was quite mediocre stacked up against the body of German tanks.

False. Tank for tank the bulk of the German forces were made up of tanks such as the PZIII, PZ IV and the StuG. All of these they Sherman compared very favorably to. Just because the Germans had SOME better thanks does not mean all or even most of their tanks were better. Did you know that the Sherman Jumbo had effectively the same frontal armor as a Tiger (taking into account the slope)? Or that E8s with APCR ammo could trash just about anything the Germans had? Comparing the most common American tank (75mm armed M4) with the most rare German tanks is unfair. A more clear comparison is the comparing common to common and rare to rare. Did you know we built more 90mm armed M36s than the Germans built Tiger 1s?