[archy]

Relatively small, fast and stealthy, when they weren’t ambushing and running with their accurate 76mm high velocity cannon, they were circle-strafing even the most advanced German machines to death. ....

The Germans feared the Hellcat because it could *always* flank them, the gun was accurate and unlike all other US tank destroyers, they couldn’t run from it. Anywhere a Panzer could go, a Hellcat could - and at a much higher rate of speed.

They *really* hated the Hellcat.

The M319 76mm HVAP round was a late-war development, but was reasonably efficient against the MkV Panther ans MK6 Tiger I, which needed redesign into the *Kingtiger* to lose the easily HVAP-penetrated shot traps of the early Tiger Turret.

[Spktyr]

Your image doesn’t seem to have made it.

Also, my comment regarding the 76mm being a high velocity cannon was in contrast to the 75mm fitted to Shermans prior to the M18 (M18s with the 76mm were rolling out months before Shermans were fitted with the “76mm gun, M1A1”) and not the HVAP ammo. Even without the HVAP ammo there was already the better part of a thousand feet per second muzzle velocity difference between the M18’s M1A1/M1A1C/M1A2 and the Sherman’s 75mm.