re: #189 William Barnett-Lewis

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…

It wasn’t Patton who was the big roadblock on the M26 Pershing (that tank was indeed named by the US Army), it was the head of Army Ground Forces, Gen. Lesley McNair. McNair thought the Pershing unneeded and held it up in ways Patton could not have done. It’s questionable if the M26 would have seen any WWII action had McNair not been killed by an Allied carpet bombing attack in July of 1944, and in that death McNair because one of the highest ranking victims of a ‘friendly fire’ incident in US Military history.