re: #179 Dark_Falcon

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.

Agreed regarding names. The E8, with an acceptable gun, wider suspension and wet ammo storage was the best tank to see real use in the war (The T-26/M-26 was far superior but thanks to that over rated bastard Patton, almost none made it to Europe prior to VE Day…)

Wardaddy’s crew is supposed to have started together in North Africa - that’s difficult historically for a number of reasons and they’d be looking at a minimum of 5 tank changes just because of the differences in tanks from Feb 1943 to Apr 1945. Still, forget Africa & say Normandy instead and it’s closer to historical than almost everything from Hollyweird and a 1000x better than anything that hack Tarantino has ever filmed.

I swear, watching a war movie about tanks as a tanker is much worse than watching a movie about hacking while knowing computers…

At least they try to show the moral ambiguity of April 1945…