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Yes, if you think of it in Gladiator terms, one vs one. But the Sherman wasnt terrible if you actually needed to roll somewhere. The Shermans amazing mobility, speed and reliability was an utter embarrassment to anything the Germans ever fielded. They were also super easy to produce.
But Shermans kicked the Nazi butt in several battles,,and won the war. Every advantage of German tanks came with world class flaws,,, which were soon exploited by T-34s and Shermans.”
With all due respect every part of the Sherman’s armor was a world class weakness. Americans usually had to call in air-support to destroy the German tanks. Their speed and numbers(ease of manufacturing) were nice, but the same could be accomplished with ever greater effect had we just used Jeeps equip with a cannons.
Pound for pound the German army was a far superior fighting force then anything in the western acenel. That is a fact we have to learn to accept, we were in fact woefully unprepared for world war 2, our arms were in many respects 2nd rate at best.
The only thing that pulled us thou were the relatively tiny size of our opponent’s ultimate fighting capacity.
In the next war this is likely NOT to be the case, which means we either have an overwhelming pound for pound fighting edge over them or we lose.
Correct. Resource superiority won the day, not our technical proficiency...with one exception - code-breaking.