James Holland
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But on paper, a Tiger tank coming around the corner and a Sherman tank coming around the corner, it should be no match at all.
Tiger tank is 58 tons, looks scary, is scary.
Tiger tank is 58 tons, looks scary, is scary. It's got a massive gun, got really thick armor. Sherman tank doesn't have as thick armor. It doesn't have a gun that's as big. It should be an absolute walkover.
Tiger tank is 58 tons, looks scary, is scary. It's got a massive gun, got really thick armor. Sherman tank doesn't have as thick armor. It doesn't have a gun that's as big. It should be an absolute walkover.
Tiger tank is 58 tons, looks scary, is scary. It's got a massive gun, got really thick armor. Sherman tank doesn't have as thick armor. It doesn't have a gun that's as big. It should be an absolute walkover.
It's got a massive gun, got really thick armor.
Sherman tank doesn't have as thick armor.
It doesn't have a gun that's as big.
It should be an absolute walkover.
And yet at about 5.30 PM on Monday, the 26th of June, 1944, a Sherman tank came around the corner of a road called a Rue Massieu, a little village called Fontenay-le-Pesnal in Normandy, came face to face with a tiger tank and won. How does this happen? Well, I'll tell you how it happened, because the commander of the Sherman tank was experienced, had one up the spout.
And yet at about 5.30 PM on Monday, the 26th of June, 1944, a Sherman tank came around the corner of a road called a Rue Massieu, a little village called Fontenay-le-Pesnal in Normandy, came face to face with a tiger tank and won. How does this happen? Well, I'll tell you how it happened, because the commander of the Sherman tank was experienced, had one up the spout.
And yet at about 5.30 PM on Monday, the 26th of June, 1944, a Sherman tank came around the corner of a road called a Rue Massieu, a little village called Fontenay-le-Pesnal in Normandy, came face to face with a tiger tank and won. How does this happen? Well, I'll tell you how it happened, because the commander of the Sherman tank was experienced, had one up the spout.
And yet, at about 5.30 p.m.
on Monday, the 26th of June, 1944, a Sherman tank came around the corner of a road called Rue Massieu, a little village called Fontenay-le-Pesnal in Normandy, came face-to-face with a tiger tank and won.
How does this happen?
Well, I'll tell you how it happened, because the commander of the Sherman tank was experienced, had one up the spout.
So what I mean by that is he had an armor piercing round already in the breach. Soon as he saw the Tiger tank, he just said fire. That armor piercing round did not penetrate the Tiger tank. It was never going to. But what it did do is it hit the gun mantlet, which is a bit of reinforced steel that you have just as the barrel is entering the turret.
So what I mean by that is he had an armor piercing round already in the breach. Soon as he saw the Tiger tank, he just said fire. That armor piercing round did not penetrate the Tiger tank. It was never going to. But what it did do is it hit the gun mantlet, which is a bit of reinforced steel that you have just as the barrel is entering the turret.
So what I mean by that is he had an armor piercing round already in the breach. Soon as he saw the Tiger tank, he just said fire. That armor piercing round did not penetrate the Tiger tank. It was never going to. But what it did do is it hit the gun mantlet, which is a bit of reinforced steel that you have just as the barrel is entering the turret.
So what I mean by that is he had an armor piercing round already in the breach.