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.
Ah, I see. You may be right on that. I'll have to check out the dvd. I had read about the 47/48's on some web site. But I’ll definitely defer to you if you were in the military working with or around them...I wasn’t!