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I enjoyed visiting the museum. It was very nice. In hindsight the U.S Army should have spent all those resources they spent on Tank destroyers on the heavy tank. They really should have had the Pershing after North Africa.

Imagine trying to liberate your country when the government takes your guns

Nerf jolt

thats not actually what they were used for. it was so people could take themselves out instead of being captured.

Almost none of them were actually used in France.

They were never used.

It was a terrible idea and most of the pistols manufactured were recycled after the war.

It’s a jolt reskin

I also want one!

I get it, STICKLERS

It amazing, we had aircraft carriers, submarines, airplanes or semiautomatic rifles, during WWII. Generals were always, fighting the last wars.

i want one

Thanks Dan, from an old gunship driver, RVN 67-68.

Great video! Thank you!

6:29 Why does the 75mm look so long compared to vehicle in the museum at the start? It doesn’t have a muzzle break either. The regular 75mm didn’t protrude over the front of the hull 🤔 Must be using the L/40 gun of the Sherman instead of the original L/31 of the Lee, I guess.

The word is mobile, not Mobil, that's a petrol company !

more ships than tanks??

That dummy gun fooled me at first. I am delighted I found this site. Very interesting. From a WWII buff in the UK. Thanks.

It was way cool, and yeah, Bogie TC'd one in, "Sahara."

Fabulous presentation! Well paced, technically detailed and progressive. Fascinating coverage of the progressive development of the type in US service. And encourages investigation of the crew/vehicle interaction in training; and combat. I'm hooked!

Arthur Herman wrote a book called "Freedom's Forge"! It was about how the civian industry ramped up to win the war!

This thiing looked goofy AF in warno so i had to look it up lmao....

What a great episode, this channel gets better every time

If Pearl Harbor happened today, the dumb dumb in the White House would apologize to Japan and offer to reimburse them for the cost of their fuel, bombs, bullets, and torpedoes.

#FiveStars

The US Army didn't want a heavy tank in 1943 yet Congress did since they were worried about not being re-elected in 1944. The press had the public worked up over the big German cats blowing away the puny M4. Ordnance began design work on the T20 series as soon as the M4 went into production. By making it lower they could increase the thickness of the armor. They experimented with torsion bar suspensions and two types of drivetrains. One was the Ford GAA driving the Buick Hydromatic automatic transmission and a gasoline-electric drive where one electric motor powered each track. Both were tried out first on the cancelled M6 heavy tank. The M6 used a larger Wright radial engine with a fluid drive. The radial spun a generator for the electric motor drive. The armor users were really interested in the electric drive since that allowed the tank to travel at the same speeds in forward and reverse. Congress threatened to cut further funding for tank development if Ordnance didn't have heavies in combat before the 1944 Fall Elections so the Ordnance engineers supersized the T23 into the T26 that used the same engine and trans as the T23 medium. They showed it to Congress in December of '43 who ordered it into production in February of '44. In the meantime Ordnance placed orders for 250 T23 GAA w/Hydromatic and 250 electric T23s. GM's Fisher Tank Arsenal (Fisher Body) was selected to be the assembly plant. Fisher was producing the M10 TD so was given the contract to produce the M36 turret to mount on their M10 hulls. Fisher had time to do that since they had to wait on machinery to produce the M26. Fisher had labor problems so fell behind on building the M10 hulls. Ordnance then directed Ford to set the M36 turret on new M4's coming off the production line and finish the conversion outside in the storage yards. Ordnance then rounded up all the M10's at training bases to be refurbished at other plants to become a M36. Fisher was ready to assemble the M26 in September but didn't have any parts yet. Their suppliers were delayed by filling existing contracts then having difficulty obtaining the needed strategic materials. While waiting Fisher designed and built the M4 Jumbos. The M26 finally started production in November after the elections. Congress now demanded for the first 20 made to be sent to Europe ASAP. Ordnance took the first three made and ran them nonstop around a test track for 500 miles. Two made it with the third losing road wheels after travelling 300 miles. Ordnance declared that was normal wear and tear so said the 20 were ready for battle. Those arrived in February without trained crews, mechanics or replacement parts. The Army refused to use them until ordered to by Ike who had Congress and General George C. Marshall raising Hell about that.

I was driver/ loader rammer/ RTO on the old M110A2 8inch SP, that snow brought back some chills,

Is that a Wyoming hat? The Buffalo stands out to me, I'm from Buffalo NY. Lol

Please do a DRAGON WAGON review !!! 😊😊😊

Wasn't the width of the Sherman also a consideration for rail transport, and shipping etc?

Wilcox is fantastic at telling these stories and describing these machines! Excellent dry humor, smooth speech and obvious knowledge.

Supremely informative in every way Thank you

My only mad comment is that instead of watching cool tank videos as you narrated i had to look at a dude in front of a tank tank that was NOT moving.

The doctrine side of this is wrong, probably fallout of crews that didn't know their doctrine and doctrine writers that ignored other works. Tanks were doctrinally meant to face tanks, and TDs were doctrinally meant to stop tank assaults.

The movie Saving Private Ryan shows the sea sickness and the throwing up.

Dont buy cheap Chinese crap

It's like Tank Chats but across the pond!

Love it! Fake cannon on the door and turret is hilarious! Please consider doing a video on the family of High Speed Tractor Prime Movers. I am REALLY hoping that you all have an M8.

Can't remember the German general name but he said that the Sherman and t-34 was a great medium tanks.easy to repair and manufacture.also very easy to maintain which was needed in battle.german tanks where complicated and high maintenance short of like a t-2000 kenworth truck......😊😊

I'm afraid we'd just have to use nukular weapons in that situation.

Hope this narrator is an army officer. He is very knowledgeable and gives an excellent presentation.

Wow can't believe you managed to get Bo Burnham to host a video

And the USA was the only country to experience the depression years.stop using this as an excuse .

The Armor collar insignia for US ARMY dress uniforms has an M26 and crossed swords. It truly was revolutionary -ex 19E/K

China has known about all of this for all of those lost decades. They helped to bring it about, and that was no accident. The Chinese are building their army, and they are making us pay for it.

Great analysis.Globalisation is a double egded sword.Many products became much cheaper in the last decades thanks to globalisation, but at the end the price may become to high in other respects. The western world is in danger to face the same problems the germans had in WW2.Advanced weaponry, but very complicated,expensive and slow in production.We(the western world) are more or less doing "business at usual"(despite some attempts to ramp up production), while russia is on a war economy-mode for nearly 2 years and still able to bypass sanctions via China,India and others. To reduce globalisation and dependence in fields of strategic importance may be necessary. To quote W.I.Lenin:"The capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with".

wasnt the best tank the stug in the war?

It's interesting to hear that the Pershing was used several times in Europe. Many sources make it sound like it was in only one battle. It was a savior in Korea when all the Soviet M34s were storming through Korea. The Shermans couldn't stand up to them.

The M26 took way too long to deploy. I think the generals had a lot to do with that. Meanwhile, Yankee and Brit tankers were roasting like hunks of meat in the overmatched Shermans. I think that Yankee generals are not just military men, but corporate execs as well. They double as business reps in the field, throttling the introduction of replacement weapons onto the battlefield to benefit the production schedules and profits of Ford, General Motors, Boeing, Grumman, Consolidated, North American etc. Meanwhile, the ordinary soldier suffers. The Navy is different. That branch is just plain stupid. I'm just sayin'