The DEADLIEST Single Loss of Sherman Tanks in WWII
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- As the column of Sherman tanks passes by a row of red-tiled cottages, not a living soul is seen on the streets of the Japanese village of Kakazu. The morning has long passed, and the day begins to heat up, as does the atmosphere within the leading tank. Through a small aperture, its commander nervously scans the area, looking for any sign of friendly infantry, fully aware that the enemy is lurking. Dozens, maybe even hundreds, of hidden eyes watch as his tank rolls down the muddy street, accompanied by the metallic clanking of steel tracks. Hidden in a bush, the barrel of an enemy anti-tank gun closely follows his movement, its gunner waiting for the right moment to strike.
A deafening blast shatters the tense silence. In a split second, the Sherman’s hull erupts into a ball of flame. Suddenly, a cacophony of bursts from small arms, machine guns, and tank guns fills the air. More than two dozen Sherman tanks and armored flamethrowers spread out, unleashing havoc on enemy ranks. Yet, the enemy is relentless. Without the support of their infantry, the American tankers are doomed.
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Sidney Nichols, Charles. Shaw, Henry I. Okinawa: Victory in the Pacific. U.S. Marine Corps, 1955.
Operational report, 27th Infantry Division, 1 January 1945 - 30 June 1945, phase I, Nansei Shoto, retrieved from cgsc.contentdm...
Prefer, Nathan N. Death Ride of the Shermans, WWII Quarterly, Fall 2018, Volume 10, No. 1. P. 28-37.
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The British lost 126 Sherman tanks in a single day, 18 July 1944. That was Operation Goodwood. Which was the breakout into France right after the D day landings just to the east of Caen near Cagny.
attempted breakout
Monty got this one roight. He was counting on the Americans coming from his right.And they did. This created the Falaise Pocket. Which decimated the German defence. Then Off to Paris.
This video is on the worst combat loss of Sherman’s in the Pacific War, not European.
I also think the British were trying to draw German armor away from the American sector so that they would have a better chance of breaking out, which they did
@@wcm8909That's a big face saving to cover his big dramatic breakthrough toward Paris.
Should be renamed 'NOT The DEADLIEST Single Loss of Sherman Tanks in WWII'
When stationed in Okinawa, my family and I lived in Kakazu. Many reminders of the battle were all around. The remains of a pillbox were on the property of the house we lived in. Also had a view of Hacksaw Ridge.
I think Hacksaw Ridge is now surrounded by housing developments. The population of Okinawa has more then quadrupled since I Was there as a Marine.
Any gime you commit tanks to a single road with no scouts, infantry or artillery barrage in advance, they are sitting ducks.
Knowing that the japonese didin't have AT guns of any type,no portable AT Weapons,only AT mines,what they acomplished is an Outstanding feat by any standards.
Did I just see an M109 howitzer used as filler? Poor practice.
Not sure about the APC either.
Yeah he (or the bot) used a bunch of out of place clips.
I don't mind them using footage of Shermans in other theatres of war, but I definitely saw Panzers around 6:51.
The Sherman's weak armor did the tankers no favors.
No tank would stand up against artillery or antitank mines. Look up the Chieftain’s video of his excellent lecture on the Sherman tank & why it was as it is on YT. It actually wasn’t that bad. The Sherman’s sloped frontal armor was nearly equivalent to the Tiger’s unsloped frontal armor. The depiction in Fury was also inaccurate. The armor piercing round from that version of the Sherman at that range would have passed clear through the Tiger.
The Sherman's armor was actually better that the T34 and the Panzer4 and only slightly worse than the Tiger1. Its only shortcoming was the gun which was intended to take on infantry not the bigger tanks.
The British called the Sherman, "the Ronson lighter", the Germans called it the "one shot lighter"
Germans inflicted 5 to 1 losses on Americans and British however germans could not replace there losses effectively in crew and tanks themselves
That was the American ratio 5-1, but the Americans rarely faced German tanks in NW Europe. The British destroyed most of them in Normandy when they destroyed Rommel's Army Group West around Caen. But when US Shermans did meet German tanks they always came off badly.
They lost their tanks in Russia , they would have pushed the Allie’s into the ocean if Hitler didn’t attack Russia. But they also would have had a longer war and an a bomb with that time!
@@jamesjohnson427 Yes, Hitler lost the war when he attacked the Soviet Union while Britain was still fighting. The British would have probably been first with the Bomb. Tube Alloys was the first A-Bomb design, the British passed it to the US when they entered the war, it became the Manhattan Project.
That is nonsense.
@@billballbuster7186 limey propaganda is still alive and well
STOP spreading misinformation! Feel free to do some research. 43 Sherman’s were lost on D-Day. In 2 battles at Kasserine pass dozens of Sherman’s were lost. Perhaps you meant to say the most Sherman’s lost in one battle to the Japanese?
This was the single greatest combat loss of Sherman’s during the pacific war, as the actual video explains. Also, most of D-Day Sherman losses weren’t due to combat.
I like the cameo of the M109, that would not be used for another 20 years.
The type1 47mm gun was very effective compared to other 47mm gun caliber.
8 out of 22 M-4 tanks returning from Kakazu Ridge that’s obviously grim news.
At 1:57 a French Somua 35. Nonetheless great footage.
"Shermans" is plural, not possessive. No apostrophe. Why is this so hard for people?
Okay grammar nazi.
America's educational system was ruined by leftist unions and political correctness, among other things.
Ahem, nothing matches the Battle of Kasserine Pass for the numbers of Sherman tanks lost to the enemy.
This was the single greatest combat loss of Sherman’s in pacific theater of wwii.
I always figured the Shermans were relatively safe from Japanese (lighter, undergunned) tanks, but oh those AT guns and sappers!!
did ya'll catch the German Pz 4 with troops at the 6:52 mark ? very well done !
ha great catch!!! We tried using as much Pacific footage as possible but hard to find enough that aligned since we're smaller channel right now with limited resources. Thx for watching!
Looks more like a StuG to me
Even the low-tech Japanese had no problem knocking out the Sherman, due mostly to its vulnerable ammunition stowage. But sending in Shermans without infantry support and without mine clearing teams was murder. The British fought two Japanese armies in Burma mostly with older M3 Lee tanks. But tank losses were light for two reasons, they had close infantry support and they drove through the jungle rather than use the roads.
The British lost in Burma to the japanese.
@@kjhnsn7296 So did the Americans in the Philippines and South East Pacific, At sea got most of their navy sunk too. At least the British had the excuse they had been fighting the Germans and Italians alone for almost 2 years.
are you a relation to Baghdad Bob?
The Japanese were not "low tech".
These were M4A3 76(w). The "w" stands for water jacket. They would have had protected ammo storage.
In Burma, the British had room to maneuver and were facing an enemy at the end of a over extended logistical line with little mechanization. On Okinawa, they were facing prepared and reinforced defenses. Not really comparable.
You are talking out your ass. 22 tanks in a day was no where near the largest loss of Shermans. In Arracourt in France 41 were lost,
Good video, well informed. The change in music was done well when you went from background knowledge to the eve of the battle. Though I felt like you over explained the Sherman tanks a bit unnecessarily, though I’m not certain that’s a flaw, and it’s just my opinion that some of that information is more suited to a tank battle video. But this was a tank video so maybe it was appropriate, again not sure and just my opinion.
Keep up the good work.
Thx for watching! Appreciate your feedback as well.
Insane the amount of losses in WW2
I didn't think that we used M4A3 76mm Shermans in the PTO. THE 75mm shermsns were much better here anyway.
The Sherman was such a death trap, especially in Europe.
On the contrary, the Sherman was one of the more survivable tanks of WW2 due to its many escape hatches
US armor crews only lost about 1700 men the ENTIRE war. Shermans were VERY survivable.
They had more tanks than I has shells
Doomed without infantry support is not a given. It depends on the terrain, the type of weapons being used by the enemy and the engagement ranges. Not much point in having infantry support if the tank is being engaged by other tanks or anti-tank guns from 1000-2000 yds!!! What is the infantryman going to do???
That’s why the german army had mechanized infantry, equipped with Anti-Tank-Guns (Pak), Anti-Aircraft-Guns (Flak) and mortars coupled to their halftracks.
For the tactic of the combined arms the mechanized infantry had to approach together with the tanks, unmounting from their vehicles and bring the Pak into position very fast, than mount very fast and drive to the next position, always searching for natural coverage.
That was the whole secret of the German Army.
Not better tanks.
Only better tactical cooperation of tanks with infantry.
For unknown reasons neither the russians nor the Anglo-americans ever tried to copy it.
Spot
@@ulrichbehnke9656 Organizational doctrine mostly. In the US it went all the way up to the top, where each type of unit was its own branch. The US copied it after the war, as did the Soviets to a degree in the motor rifle company.
The DEADLIEST Single Loss of Sherman Tanks in WWII... was not in the Pacific.
Great job man,tell a story like it should be ❤
Thx for watching!
What a Great Tank the Sherman was - knocked out by a 47 mm AT Gun !
Same with the Tiger, could and did get knocked out with a 37mm gun on an armoured car.
@@yancowles As Civilians - we don't really understand high-velocity impacts ...
A t70 knocked out a panther
@@yancowles Maybe at point blank range in the rear armour. There is a good chance that story is apocryphal or inaccurate (it could have been a much lighter armoured Panzer IV).
I bet General Sherman would not have wanted his name on that tank.
When one considers that German tank regiments were authorized to have 220 tanks, but usually had few than that, the American tank battalion with 53 medium tanks and 17 light tanks was a stout establishment.
Great video 🤙
Thx for watching! Glad you enjoyed it.
Also look up the battle of Le Mesnil-Patry, 11 June 1944. The First Hussars lost a lot of Shermans, and my mom lost one of her brothers (tank crew of 1H, has no known grave).
If you do look it up, a Canadian tank regiment is basically a tank battalion, and a squadron is basically a tank company.
No, we're talking about Okinawa here. Thanks.
@@Page-Hendryx No probs, was simply suggesting something additional to explore.
No, no they told the soldiers it's a good thing to have weak steel, even in obscure ww2 books is writen that the weak armour make it more possible that the PzG40 doesn't explode 😂 The norden bomb sight is another good story, go look for it, it's worth it😂❤
Great video
Thx for watching!
Goodwood????
British tanks (though still Shermans)
Aracor was the shooting range.
So not about Caen then. Skip.
The videos topic is on the worse combat loss of Sherman’s in the Pacific War, not European War.
Did you know German wehrmacht and Waffen-SS tank crews were horrified and said it was CRIMINAL AND PURE MURDER to send those allied boys into war in such bad tanks, with almost no protection for its crews?!? Some of those Germans were actually SICK to their stomag after the battles
GOODWOOD 300 lost
The first shermans that came out got the nickname Ronson Lighter
Tank hatches were locked down : no grenades thrown in
The little tank that burned
Why don't you use your own voice, but crappy FAKE AI voice?
This is a real person VO.
Sherman tanks were second-rate. There were just a ton of them.
Sherman's were fine tanks, especially later variants. They definitely had their flaws like all tanks.
Rubbish. They excelled at the majority of their tasks and their design allowed vast numbers to be produced. When used to their strengths they were at least the equal of the German heavy tanks. They smashed Japanese tanks.
You ignore the multiple variants they had. From Light infantry support, flamethrower and heavy variants. They also had one with rocket barrage capability! If anything German tanks were rubbish, they were good for a day and then needed constant maintenance and always got stuck.
@@DalesmanableOnly the Sherman Firefly or the American version with a 76mm gun could be considered equal to the best German tanks. In general, the standard Sherman was on a par with the German Mk 4. The Panther and Tigers were in a different league.
@@mikloridden8276You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about! German tanks destroyed enemy tanks at the rate of 5 to 1. The Panther was arguably the best team of the war. The Allies had numbers and that’s what guaranteed them victory, not quality.