Reply To: Battle of the Bulge – December 16, 1944

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Great links, @zorg – and it gets the “big picture” right about the qualitative merits and flaws of the Sherman.

But man.  This is the reason we can’t watch TV documentaries for historical research.  In the first minute of the first video:

Talks about Shermans, shows an M10 Tank destroyer.

Mentions George S. Patton, shows Omar Bradley.  Also, Patton didn’t command the Normandy invasion.  He wasn’t even involved.

Patton “selected” the Sherman as his tank of choice – no he didn’t.  M4 was the US standard tank before Patton was even a major-general, or America was really in the war.

*sigh*  TV documentaries … the bane of my existence.