Yes, I hear you, but I am sure that the infantry would have preferred to have tanks there to support them rather than none at all. A broken down tank is usually as ineffective as a destroyed one because it cannot be gotten to where it was needed at the front. When you have tanks breaking down it also becomes much more difficult to concentrate your armour. The M4s and T-34s could be more easily be concentrated in great mass and that, as the Germans themselves had shown in 1940, could be key.
This particular Sherman, like the one at the Military History Museum in Johannesburg, is armed with a 105mm howitzer.
Sandstone Estates where? Pretoria?
The Sandstone Heritage Trust is in the Eastern Free State near Ficksburg. sandstone-estates.com/
I think i'd rarther have to abandon an overcomplicated tank than have one that was easy to fix after i'd been killed in it.
True enough, but equipment breaking down without the help of the enemy can't be good for an army in the field.
Yes, I hear you, but I am sure that the infantry would have preferred to have tanks there to support them rather than none at all. A broken down tank is usually as ineffective as a destroyed one because it cannot be gotten to where it was needed at the front. When you have tanks breaking down it also becomes much more difficult to concentrate your armour. The M4s and T-34s could be more easily be concentrated in great mass and that, as the Germans themselves had shown in 1940, could be key.