M4 Sherman war movies
M4 Sherman war movies
M4 Sherman
Next to Russian T-34 the most successful tank built during World War 2. Shermans had more weak points than good qualities (armor too thin, guns not strong enough, silhouette too high, the ammo racks weren’t protected enough) which made them inferior to German tanks, so they were often called "coffins on tracks" or by British "Ronsons" after the lighters that used slogan "Lights up the first time, every time!" (due to fact that first versions of engine used aircraft fuel and burst into flames when hist by shell). But they had one major advantage (and same as T-34) over Tigers and Panthers - their construction was so simple that factories were able to produce them in large numbers and also they could have been repaired in the middle of nowhere with just a handful of basic tools. Germans used to say that Tiger tank was better than 15 Shermans, but Allies usually had 16 or more.
Kelly’s Heroes 1970
American soldier from recon unit learns about gold bars kept in an abandoned bank behind the enemy lines. With the chaos around he simply can’t help the temptation to reach for them.
Windtalkers 2002
Film based on a true story of Navajo Indians, who were used during the World War 2 as translators to send coded messages between units on Pacific using their native language, which made it impossible for the Japanese to decode them.