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Saw "Fury" last night
I can't say that I did not like it but I can say that I'm not going to buy the video. It was really hard to have much sympathy for any of the characters and there were several tactical things that I just could not swallow. There is some awesome action with Shermans and the running of the Sherman looked very realistic to me, and much to my chagrin, there is only one scene with the Tiger tank. I would say if you think you're going to watch the movie, I would watch it in the theater. It is not for children to watch, the carnage is approaching Saving Pvt. Ryan and there is quite a bit of suspense and stress watching the movie, the imagery is sticking with me today.
I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn away from their ways and live. Eze 33:11
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I have no clue:uhm:
Recoil is how you know primer ignition is complete.
I think these guys would have been much more conservative this late in the war, think Band of Brothers or the "Oddball" character in Kelly's Heroes, especially around a Tiger tank. Not a speck of air to ground support either, the allies owned the sky at this point, I doubt that last group of Germans would have been in a column in broad daylight on a road the allies were moving up on. The Sturmgewehr was a nice touch.
The Sherman Firefly had a high-velocity 76 mm gun mounted on an M4 chassis, but they were used by the British and not to my knowledge, by the Americans. Suspension of disbelief, I guess. They had a longer barrel than the standard Sherman which was painted so it looked like a shorter barrel to keep from drawing unwanted attention. The projectile weighed almost 20 pounds. They could defeat even the Tigers, the only Allied tank that could in a one-on-one battle. I didn't see movie, but what I did see was the standard Sherman.
Very English expression.
You watch a disturbing film, you go to sleep, bad dreams, need the landing ( the landing is the space at the top of the stairs outside the bedrooms ) light on so that when you awake there is a light outside your bedroom.
Come on, work with me here. :devil:
The 3-inch (76.2 mm) calibre British 17-pounder anti-tank gun was the way to go with the Sherman, Firefly to us.
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Too slow again.
PPs.
It was offered to the allies but declined.
M4 A1s, A2s and A3's all came with the larger (T23 Turret) and the M1 76mm High Velocity gun...and were used extensively by the U.S. Army in Europe....The first standard-production 76 mm gun Sherman was an M4A1, accepted in January 1944
My stepson is a major in the US Army, and did his first Iraq tour as a tank platoon commander. He won a Bronze Star for an action that, while intense at the time, turned out to be his Abhrams getting blown up by a suicide donkey. A change in ROE allowed them to engage livestock at any time they felt threatened by them. Shelling a mosque that served as a firing position for the BG's, OTOH, stayed verboten.
No kidding.
Mike
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I like the line in the previews, " This is the best job I ever Had".
Actually, it is/was for some of us, tanks or another piece of equipment.
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Recoil is how you know primer ignition is complete.
Well then, you compressed all of the above into 5 words then, nicely done:tooth: