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Sergeant William Simmons' Sherman tank was disabled during the battle, and he led his surviving crew toward Canadian lines. Seeing a German tank approaching them, Simmons ordered his men to scatter then ran toward the tank to distract it. [68] His body was later found in a ditch at the 2nd Battalion headquarters, showing signs of an execution. [68]
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.
Under Lend-Lease, 4,102 M4A2 medium tanks were sent to the Soviet Union. Of these, 2,007 were equipped with the original 75 mm main gun, with 2,095 mounting the more-capable 76 mm gun. The total number of Sherman tanks sent to the USSR under Lend-Lease represented 18.6% of all Lend-Lease Shermans. [40]
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 ...
Firing ports (Clockwise from top left) of a Crusader tank, Sherman tank, T-34-85, Tiger I.The T-34-85 features an armor plug over the firing port. [1]A firing port, sometimes called a pistol port, is a small opening in armored vehicles, fortified structures like bunkers, [2] or other armored equipment that allows small arms to be safely fired out of the vehicle at enemy infantry, often to ...
A Milwaukee man accused of firing shots at a crowded Sherman Park in July 2023 has been sentenced to three years in prison. Sherman Park shooting, Milwaukee man sentenced to 3 years in prison Skip ...
Six men and six women handed down a stunning verdict in Michigan Tuesday, finding Jennifer Crumbley – whose son killed four high school students in 2021 – guilty of four involuntary ...
The tank was displayed to the public for the first time during the Independence Day ceremony in 1965. [10] Abroad the M-50 was known as Super Sherman (the "Continental" variant as Mark I and the "Cummins" variant as Mark II) and the M-51 as either Super Sherman, Isherman (i.e. Israeli Sherman) or M4A1 Revalorise. These designations were never ...