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Research for tank casualties in Normandy from 6 June to 10 July 1944 conducted by the British No. 2 Operational Research Section concluded that from a sample of 40 Sherman tanks, 33 tanks burned (82 percent) and 7 tanks remained unburned following an average of 1.89 penetrations. In comparison, from a sample of five Panzer IVs, four tanks ...
Lafayette Green Pool (July 23, 1919 – May 30, 1991) was an American tank-crew and tank-platoon commander in World War II and is widely recognized as the US tank ace of aces, [2] [page needed] credited with 12 confirmed tank kills and 258 total armored vehicle and self-propelled gun kills, over 1,000 German soldiers killed and 250 more taken as prisoners of war, [3] accomplished in only 81 ...
Death Traps: The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II is a 1998 memoir by Belton Y. Cooper. The book relates Cooper's experiences during World War II and puts forth an argument against the US Army's use of the M4 Sherman tank during the war instead of the M26 Pershing.
M4 Sherman: Credited with 18 tank kills and many other armoured vehicles, whilst in command of three Sherman tanks, named 'Caribou'. [82] The tank squadron under his command may have been responsible for the death of German tank ace Michael Wittmann. Lafayette G. Pool United States: World War II: 27 June 1944 – 15 September 1944 12 M4 Sherman
The explanation was simple: the US military had standardized on gasoline as a fuel and did not want vehicles with non-standard fuel. The main tank fuel capacity of the M4A2 148 US gallons (560 L; 123 imp gal). Those tanks are located on the left and right rear hull sponsons, above the tracks.
M4 Sherman Crocodile – M4 tank modified with the flamethrower and fuel trailer from a Churchill Crocodile. Four built and issued to 739th Tank Battalion, which was attached to the 29th Division for Operation Grenade in February 1945, where they cleared the Old Citadel in the town of Jülich .
Only a handful of Dahmer's 17 victims between 1978-1991 were highlighted in the series, and fewer than that were given three-dimensional depictions of the lives they lived and the people they were.
Two US M4 Sherman tanks knocked out by Japanese artillery at Bloody Ridge, 20 April 1945. The Americans suffered some 48,000 casualties, not including some 33,000 non-battle casualties (psychiatric, injuries, illnesses), of whom over 12,000 were killed or missing.