Tanks

The British 17lb anti -tank gun was a match for any German tank, as was the 6lb anti-tank gun with the later developed ammunition.

 

Could be wrong but didn't they use a Pershing for the German tank in " To Hell and Back", the film of Audie Murphy's biography.

The "Tiger tank" that has been used in many recent films, is in fact a modified T34!

Bovingdon Tank Museum has a real Tiger that they drive around in during open days

 

Hi guys this is my first post, I think that best tank is StugIII if u can count
it as a tank its more a infantry support/anti-tank vehicle it was easy and cheap to manufacture, fast, reliable, easy to repair, good armour and firepower, StugIII has most comfired tanks destroyed more than 20000!!!!

 

yeah ok the stug III was a good assault gun but you need to look at the ratio of the amount built to the amount of enemy tanks destroyed.

for example: stug III: Ausf A, 30 built
Ausf B, 320 built
Ausf D, 150 built
Ausf E, 272 built
Ausf F, 359 built
Ausf G, 7720 built + another 173 converted from Pz III,

there is know a total of 9,024, so when you do the maths they were good but the panther in later years was better as was the tiger, and the Pz IV was well a good alround tank through out the whole war,

the King Tiger i beleive was better than what peaple say, but they came to late as did much of the stuff germany needed, had they had them at the start of '44 you could have seen some interesting battles, but they didn't,
the M26 pershing was a great tank but the allies had bsolutley no real good tactics to take on german Pnz's, for example on average for every Panther knocked out or destroyed the allies lost 6 shermans,

It is easy to say that the King Tiger is bad as it was to easy to spot from the air becouse of its size, well what if it was the other way around and the germans had air mass airsupport and the allies with almost nothing, do you believe the sherman would have faired any better,

 

Out of all the sherman tanks built i only know of one where it has beaten a tiger in battle. The shell struck the tiger right between the turret and main body of the tank, bucking the metal enough to disable turret movement. The crew abandoned the tank. The turret is kept at bovington tank museum or at least it was when i visited a few years ago.

 

Patton gave up his opportunity to have his "Tiger". The Pershing M26 was ready to into full production in early 44 and was demo-ed in England prior to D-Day. Ike was promised several hundred ready to go for D-Day and many junior armor officers wanted it, Patton refused, feeling that the Sherman was smaller and therefore would be more mobile and use less full. What if the allies had 500 Pershings in Normady? The outcome of the war would have been much different...

 

In the book "Death Traps, Survival of an American Armored Division" by Belton Cooper who was the liasion maintanence officer for CCB of the 3rd Armored wrote of a demostration in England of the Pershing prototype and the subsquent developments between Patton and the other Armored force officers prior to D-Day. Mr. Cooper discusses the implacations of Pattons decision not to request the production models of the T26e3 that could have been made available for D-Day. Very intresting reading

 

I like the Jagdpanther Tankdestroyer.
I know it wasn't the best but it is my favourite.