Re: “German panzers looked remarkably like American tanks.”
Yea, that always bugs me too in wwii movies. I love the movie ‘Patton’ too, but they must have have used the same prop guys as were used in the Battle of the Bulge. Their desert “panzer” III/IV’s were 50 era American Patton series M48’s and Americans “Shermans were M47’s.
I suspect that most of the real Panzers and Tigers ended up in pretty sad shape by the end of the war. Probably pretty hard to get hold of them.
A very interesting way to present the fighting that took place that day.
The movie was well done, but not quite like reading about it, and giving yourself time to let each individual account sink in.
I thought the German tanks were M46s, they had two drivers, the M48 series didn’t have a co-driver, only one hatch in the hull. M46 and M47 had two hatches. I may be mistaken about that as it has been a while since I watched Patton, but one thing I do know is the M48A1 and A2. I was in Germany when we traded out our A1s for brand new(at the time)M60s in the summer of 1961. Loved the new gun, M60 had a 105 MM with sabot for the AP vs the M48s 90 MM with large metal ogive covering the tungsten core AP.