[PLMerite]

"Meanwhile we made 11,000 (!!) tanks in four years of war, turning one out every 4.5 hours"

And between the panzers and the 88s they got destroyed at a pretty good clip, too.

[LS]

No. A Sherman was a match for any Panzer up to the MK4 advanced model, and could even hold its own with that. 120mm guns were introduced that made the Sherman the equal of a Tiger 1. But we could change a tread on a Sherman in 15 minutes, switch out a turret in an hour behind the lines. No Tiger could be fixed on the field, and if a Panther blew a tread it took an hour to change it.

Shermans were not well armored---downside---and compared to a Tiger or Panther were under-gunned. But their equivalent, the Mark series, we were fine with that.

[TalonDJ]

11 thousand? Hah! try nearly FIFTY thousand. And that was just M4s. We gobs of tank destroyers too.

Between P-47’s, Typhoons and our coordinated artillery those panzers died at an ever faster rate. Actually I think panzers broke down faster than they were able to kill M-4s. Most of the tanks Shermans ACTUALLY fought were (by numbers) Pz-IIIs, Pz-IVs and Stugs. Sherman’s had no trouble going toe to toe with those. And the M4E2 ate them for lunch.