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Fritz
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Choss Creek, ID
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Bump for chaos.
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Mighty Hiker
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Vancouver, B.C.
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Kind of on topic. The main tank of the US army in World War II was the Sherman. It was somewhat inferior in armour and firepower to what the Germans had, but far more numerous. One of the nicknames they had for it - military black humour - was the "Ronson". Because they were always being lit up.
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Fritz
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Choss Creek, ID
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Anders: Re your comment on the Sherman tank "brewing up."
I recall that the Americans loaned a lot of Sherman tanks to the Brits.
The Germans also then referred to the Sherman tank as the: "Tommy Cooker."
My memory is: the U.S. could produce Sherman tanks and trained crews faster than the Germans could destroy a tank, that was not "state of the art," in the last year of WWII.
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