![]() Here it is worth explaining why M4 SHERMAN and other U.S. This must be misunderstanding, possibly due to more error, as I might refer to direct progenitor of Sherman via it British* name – GENERAL LEE. ![]() You can read his memoirs translated into English here: ![]() To this day I have a piece of shrapnel in my head from an antiaircraft machine gun. We fired them so much that they got red hot and began to cook off. These machine guns were of great use to us in the war with Japan, against kamikazes. But our general impression of the machine gun was good. We placed the tank on the upslope of a hill and fired. We even used our main gun against aircraft. Try to shoot the bastard down! So yes, we used it, but it was not very effective. He dropped his bomb and departed quickly. The Germans would drop their bombs from say, 800 meters or higher. The machine gun was good to 400-600 meters in the vertical. They bombed either from altitude or from a steep dive. We used it less frequently against air targets because the Germans were not fools. We used this machine gun against both aircraft and ground targets. Meanwhile the other four of my tanks went ahead and drove into an ambush. We were thrown around, of course, but we survived the experience. I was leading the battalion and on a turn my driver-mechanic clipped a curb. We were fighting in Hungary in December 1944. But I am alive today thanks to this deficiency. The tank frequently tipped over on its side, like a Matryoshka doll (a wooden stacking doll). ![]() The Sherman had its weaknesses, the greatest of which was its high center of gravity. “(…)Stock Sherman’s were as tall as Tigers!(…)” ![]()
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