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James Holland

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
4177 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

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.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

Tiger tank is 58 tons, looks scary, is scary.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

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.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

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.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

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.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

It's got a massive gun, got really thick armor.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

Sherman tank doesn't have as thick armor.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

It doesn't have a gun that's as big.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

It should be an absolute walkover.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

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.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

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.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

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.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

And yet, at about 5.30 p.m.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

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.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

How does this happen?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

Well, I'll tell you how it happened, because the commander of the Sherman tank was experienced, had one up the spout.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

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.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

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.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

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.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

So what I mean by that is he had an armor piercing round already in the breach.