Posted on 09/15/2001 12:43:15 PM PDT by StoneColdGOP
WP: Patton had little to do with the choosing or deploying of any armored vehicle in WWII…Patton had little to do with its development or the decision to produce lots of Shermans…
Your argument would seem to be with the gentleman from Aberdeen Proving Ground.
WIJG: It may be worth remembering that the M4 was not the only American armored vehicle in the ETO: the M10 and M36 tank destroyers were also in service, the latter mounting a 90mm gun. And (if I remember correctly) the M26 used many drive train components that were identical (or similar) to those used in the Shermans…
WP: That would be wrong. Even a glance at a Sherman and Pershing will show they are from compleltely different design schools. Too, your statement falls flat in that Shermans used several different power plants…
We were not discussing “design schools.” I was responding to a comment in Post #90 to the effect that ‘putting in new divisions equipped with M26s…side by side with divisions equipped with M4s would have created one hell of a supply and maintenance problem.’ I suggested that there may have been some commonality of drive train components (one author has noted that “the [Ford] GAF engine in the M26 was essentially the GAA of the medium tank M4A3…) and armament (“[the] M26 was armed with the same 90mm gun as the M36 tank destroyer”). In other words, the “supply and maintenance problem” anticipated by our friend in Post #90 may not have been quite as severe as he anticipated. On the other hand, based on your comments concerning existing variations in M4 drive train components, it may well be that “one hell of a…problem” existed just in terms of maintaining the various M4 variants…
Grabs the gut and makes you proud to be an American Man!
Thanks for posting it.
BUMP!
It is great to meet up with Young American Males who think like I do! I was beginning to think my Generation were all pansies.....Thankfully not!
Bump to the top...whether the pansies like it or not!
BTTT
Yes!!!
"They call me cowboy, I'm a singer in black..."
General George S. Patton:
"I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his."
A great Quote!
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