Favourite U.S. tank ?

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Interesting - I'd heard a different version of that song!
(Major-General 'at ease, trooper' Ricky )

 

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What's the original, then?

 

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Watch full metal jacket.

 

I go for the Sherman.

 

M-26, no doubt about that! The armour is OK and the gun is much better for hunting the big cats.

 

I don't know what to vote. I think I hardly know half of the tanks mentioned above...

 

The late model Sherman Easy"8" well not has good has German tanks it was reliable and huge improvement over early models,bigger gun,wet protection for ammo,more armour.....

 

I like the Chaffee. It was late in the war, but I still like it. It had a medium tank gun and for a light tank, was pretty heavy. It is also the standard Allied tank in the movie Patton (the germans use the M-48 Patton). I also didn't really want to pick the Sherman, even though in was a good tank.

 

Sherman 4 sure.
It is my favorite tank in general too. I know it is not the best but it is a legend.

 

I like the M-24 too.

 

i dont like the sherman at all

i much prefer the pershing much more imposing and better looking all round.

 

My favorite american designs of WWII are as follows

1. Chaffee

2. Sherman

3. Grant

4. Pershing

5. Probably the T-28

 

the sherman isint the best but it helped win the war by numbersIchose the m4

 

Hmmmmmmmmm, jeeze thats a tough one. Maybe I should think it over a little.

 

Sherman they might have sucked but they were good in #s do thats what we did

 

Johann and M3A1 are my kind of guys.

Incidently, the M3 earned the nickname "Honey" after a demonstration to the British. Their Cruiser-tanks were notorious for shedding tracks in manuvers.
Upon demonstration, hard as they tried, they couldn't get a Stuart to shed a track. In response, the British officer replied "Yes, Sir. I'ts a HONEY."
The name stuck.

My affection goes back to all those "Haunted Tank" comics of the '60's and 70's. That little M3 could 'tip the hat' of a Tiger 1 routinely with that "ghostly 37."

Tim

 

As I recall Hoosier, Jeb Stuart and the crew of the Haunted Tank started out in an M-5 and moved up to an M-4. There was even one story where they had to take an M-26 Pershing that was haunted by it's former crew.

I was definitely a fan of DC's Weird War Tales.

 

M3A1:
The legend of the "Haunted Tank" originated with the original M3A1.
It all began with the landings in North Africa. That is where the ghost of Confederate General Jeb Stuart grudgingly agreed to look-over a "bunch of YANKEES" in the M3A1 such as your picture illustrates. I have that issue of course.
Understand, my comics have an original-issue price of .12 cents. (The GIANT issues back then went for a whopping 25 cents!) I still have every one of them. I'm showing my age now aren't I?!
In the early comics, they had .30 cals in the hull sponsons--firing--as well.
As time marched on, I think they did finally upgrade to a Sherman, but it just weren't the same to me. When I think of the Haunted Tank, and Lt Jeb Stuart--his namesake TC--I always think of the little M3A1. And the artwork was just SUPERB back then...

Tim

 

Ah. You see when I started reading it, it was one of DC comics "dollar comics". When the origins of the story were reprised it was done so with an M-5. Other than that they were always out and about in an M-4.

Here's a couple more pics. Taken just last year. You can see quite a difference between the now and the then of the previous picture I put up.