[U S Army EOD]

When you read accounts of the Sherman involved in battles with German tanks, the Shermans almost always registered the first hits. Once they got a gun that could penetrate the German tanks, the Shermans gave as good as they got. My father told me that the tank destroyers, when engaged against German armor, usually came out on top. They had the high velocity 76mm and the 90mm. The 90mm was quite a bit more potent than the German 88mm and would go through both sides of a German Tiger I tank turret. Dad also told me, of course the 75mm would bounce off the German tanks. He noted one incident where he came up on one of the Tiger II's and it had 5 American tank destroyers clustered around it that it had gotten. As far as they could tell, an American aircraft had gotten the German tank.

[SAMWolf]

I have a picture I took in Belgium of a Kingtiger with about 4 or 5 "dents" in the front glacis plate and 1 shell embedded in the hull that didn't penetrate. The town down the road has a Sherman with 3 holes punched through the side armor. I don't envy the men who went up against German armor in Shermans.