[redcatcherb412]

Five Shermans to knock out one Panther doesn’t sound like good odds. I knew men who served in the 4th. Armored Division and they had respect for the German tankers. And the effectiveness of their tanks. “Our shells would bounce off them’’ is a refrain I heard many times.

Only sim I play online is Aced Hi. Their Aircraft, Armor and ballistics are modeled very exacting to real world tolerances. The German Armor is very difficult to take down with a Sherman even with the tanks armor thickness and weak spots being documented. Panthers are hard to take out, Tiger 2's very very difficult.

[jmacusa]

It was a sad state of affairs, for the time, that America, the automotive leader of that era, sent it's soldiers to war in a tank that was , quite frankly, a piece of junk. It was only towards the last few months of the war that the American military understood that quantity does not always equate to quality and when your enemy is out shooting you at great distances and you have to get in close to him, quality means the difference between life and death. In late ‘44 the Army began to equip Sherman's with a high velocity 76mm gun but these were not in great supply and it was only in the last few weeks of the war that the M-26 Pershing with it's 90mm gun saw combat.

[central_va]

The German Armor is very difficult to take down with a Sherman even with the tanks armor thickness and weak spots being documented.