some early tanks had radial aircraft engines but the M4A4 had a Chrystler multi bank that was five six cylinder engines in a rotary arrangment 
Posted on 10/01/2017 9:32:28 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
some early tanks had radial aircraft engines but the M4A4 had a Chrystler multi bank that was five six cylinder engines in a rotary arrangment
Looked in the book, “Deathtraps: the survival of an armored division in WwII by Cooper.
They had Wright 9 cylinder air cooled engines. Because of budget constraints in the Depression they put these airplane engines in the early M4s that were designed to be operated at high, constant speeds. There was too much room between the pistons and cylinder walls, so they were always changing plugs.
About two inches of armor up front, poor mobility and no firepower. Guys who rode in them called them ‘Ronsons.’
I didn’t see that it was identified as a Sherman.
Did you see it identified as a Sherman?
Thanks! That’s nice.
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Have you seen the movie ‘Fury’?
The M4 Sherman was inferior to some German tanks but the deciding factor was quantity over quality. Over 49,000 Sherman tanks were built. They greatly outnumbered the German tanks.
Likely a lot of Calif. transplants in a $$$ neighborhood.
lol, oh so sorry, I thought you were implying I didn’t know what it was.....
No problem.
There’s a number of lend-lease vehicles that have returned to the US over the years and have been repainted with American military schemes. It’s not that uncommon, because we actually scrapped most of ours while the Lend Lease and some immediate-post-war foreign aid gear sometimes went between multiple countries and was kept in service a very long time.
Case in point - WW2 M18 Hellcats may not have fought their last combat action. There are still several in service in Venezuela, modernized in the 1990s; M18s participated in front line combat during the Yugoslavian Civil Wars (to reportedly a number of ex-Soviet WW2 tanks and post-war APCs’ terminal surprise) and remain in active inventory in many of the successor states that arose from that.
Patton saw the tank as assisting infantry, didn’t give much thought to tanks fighting each other.
The Sherman M4 was outclassed in every way by the Panther and Tigers, but yeah, there a lot more of them.
Germans were surprised to see Shermans coming off the Normandy beach, still steaming from the water, that bright green color, big white star on the glacis, no attempt at camo and that high profile.
American tankers had to have big brass balls.
Very nice.
FYI: Deathtraps has been debunked by many other authors. Cooper had some, er, issues and was ‘selective’ about what he put in the book. The M4 was more mobile than the tanks it was designed to go up against and wasn’t much worse than the Panther.
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The decision on that wasn’t Patton’s, but Army command. The US Army had decided that tanks were to fight infantry and enemy tanks were to be taken out by roving bands of tank destroyers on call. This is why we built the ridiculously fast M18 Hellcats, to be the ‘fire brigade’ units rushing around the battlefield to kill enemy tanks that popped up.
The Germans were very unhappy to see the M4A3E2 - a Sherman that *could* bounce the Tiger’s short 88 or the Panther’s long 75. And the E2s were pressed into service leading convoys and spearheading troop movements.
You’re right on.
It was all terrible but I agree about the brass balls. The same with bomber crews.
I remember a story where a B-17 ball turret gunner met a tanker and neither said he would trade places with the other.
Not the one shown with that low velocity cannon. Or with those treads.
The Army had a chance to adopt the Christy suspension and passed.
Patton’s opinion carried a lot of weight. The Army didn’t address this mistake until late in the war with the M-26.
Do you names, titles for some of his ‘debunkers’? I’d like to read what they had to say.
They were losing so many tank crews they started taking infantry off the line and they got on the job training.
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