29 July 1942 the SS Seatrain Texas set sail from New York with a cargo of 250-300 Sherman tanks. Arrived Cape Town 18 days later and arrived Port Taufiq southern end of Suez Canal 2 Sept. 1942Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
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Favorite Tank
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too scary, too fearsome, too armored, too hard to kill(tank - tank), too big
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what roll did the churchill realy play
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too scary, too fearsome, too armored, too hard to kill(tank - tank), too big
The tiger was a good tank. It was limited by it’s weight. I would rather have a tank that was better balanced than the tiger, the Panther, T-34 or Panzer IV.
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Alright, it’s not precisely WWII, but I think I just found my favorite tank. :-D
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11511886 -
they had wood tanks though
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Panther was designed a year after Tiger so naturally it took some lessons learned from the T34 into account. Good speed, good armor. Had a great gun itself. Tiger seems like Rommell’s blend of a bigger Matilda and his 88’s.
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@ABWorsham:
If you were a ruler of a country and wanted to build an armor force from the WWII era, which tank would you choose for the job?
Panther G model with the T34-85 a close second.
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One of my favorites is the E-75 Standardpanzer. Germany’s Entwicklung series was intended to have been a replacement for its existing tank designs. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entwicklung_series . The Entwicklung series tanks were intended to be simpler, easier-to-produce, more mechanically reliable versions of the tanks they replaced. The series ranged from the E-5 (5 - 10 ton light tanks and armored reconnaissance vehicles) to the E-100 (a 100 ton successor to the Maus).
The E-75 was the intended successor to the Tiger 2 (a.k.a. the King Tiger). The E-75 was significantly better armed and better armored than the Soviets’ IS-2. However, the E-series tanks were still in the prototype phase when the war ended.
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