re: #166 William Barnett-Lewis

i haven’t seen it yet, only trailers and reviews, but it looks as if Brad Pitt has given me a reason to forgive him for that execrable garbage of “Inglourious Basterds”. It’s called “Fury” and it stars, even more than him or Shia LeBeouf, an M4A3E8 & a Panzerkampfwagon VI E (Tiger 131 from the Bovington Tank Museum, the only working Tiger in the world). More reality in a minute of this look at the last weeks of WWII than in all of QT’s dreck. I’m looking forward to this one coming to my small town theater and that’s a rare thing.

I’m looking forward to it as well, as I’m sure you’ve guessed. The movie shows several M4A3E8s*, and so required cooperation of a number of groups of collectors and reenactors. A complex undertaking that looks very good.

*: The ‘Easy Eight’ nickname was a postwar invention, and the US Army did not call M4 series tanks ‘Shermans’ during the Second World War, nor did the Red Army (which received over 2000 M4A2 (76)s via Lend Lease in 1944-45) use that name. It was the British who called it the Sherman.