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RE: M4 Sherman vs Tiger
Actually the M4A3E8(w) wasn't that bad a tank... for late '43 or early '44, when it could have been standard except for Ike, Bradly and Patton not wanting it. When it did show up in late '44, early '45 it was obsolete.
The M-26 was as good as anything the Germans made. It could have beeen rady by D-Day, except for the shipping probelm. You could get almost 100 M4's on a Liberty ship and a little more then half that in M-26's. It wasn't the weight, but the width. If the M-26 had been a few inches narrower, it might have been doable. Or at least that is what I have read. Keeping in mind that the US had to ship everything across the pond, and there was always more to ship, then there were ships to carry it, the logistics guys stopped prodution of the M-26 in december of '43, IIRC. That 8 month hold was used to re-design the turret and transmission, I think. I would rather have 42 M-26's then 96 M-4's, but I'm not a Major General in the US Army.
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