Posted by Steven Allen on October 18, 2023 at 05:39:59 from (67.6.51.252):
In Reply to: Tuesday Truck posted by Majorman on October 17, 2023 at 00:08:47:
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They certainly had tank haulers in WWII, and the Sherman was far more useful than that. There were huge depots for repairing them.
The Sherman's problem were not with the tank but with US armored doctrine, which specified tanks for infantry support and tank destroyers for fighting tanks. The Germans didn't cooperate with the doctrine. The M4 series was capable of going toe-to-toe with the tanks designed at the same time, the Pkw IV series.
The US made a conscious choice not to try to manufacture any of the several heavier tanks because of slowing down production and the difficulty of shipping them overseas. Shermans were utterly reliable, which was not true of the German tanks. Over 44,000 were manufactured, allowing US armored units to overrun opposition (at least once the army broke out of the Bocage).
The person most responsible for giving the Sherman an undeserved bad name was Belton Cooper, who ran one of the repair depots. He saw--and repaired--the damage, but he didn't see the larger picture.
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