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Well, yes. Ivan just started shooting youths first and asking stupid questions later. It had the intended effect.

Fury was not very historically accurate. Using stored extra tracks as potential armor improvements wasn’t just something done in the field, many tanks came with (and still do come with) conveniently placed track link storage brackets.

The smaller German tanks had spaced armor panels developed earlier in the war, similar in concept though for different reasons. (The Germans in Panzer 38Ts, IIIs and IVs learned to *really* hate Russian antitank rifles.)

FYI: A lot of WW2 records are finally being declassified around the world and we are finding out that a lot of what we ‘knew’ about weapons may not actually be so - such as the fact that the stats show that the Sherman was statistically one of the safest tanks of the war, even before the ammo was put in wet stowage.