M4 Sherman

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 repeaired 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.

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