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Originally Posted by Torplexed
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Originally Posted by Abraham
But in this proces faults - with hindsight - have been made.
For instance, in January '44 the US general for tank procurement, a certain George Patton, vetoed the mass production of the superior M26 Pershing tank on grounds that changing the production process would interrupt the delivery of the M4 Sherman, a tank with which the war could be won. As a consequence US tank crews in the European Theater of Operations suffered apalling losses against Panthers, Tigers and German AT guns ...
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Aha! So, that's who is to blame. They should have appealed to his towering ego and named it the M26 Patton tank. 
There eventually was the M48 Patton...but long after. |
You might even know that Patton was so stubborn in his opinion about the M4 Sherman tank that he did not allow his own tank crews to improvise makeshift armour plates on vulnerable parts of the M4, or to have them carry sandbags against HEAT grenades from German Panzerfaust (RPG-style) weapons...
But I'm pretty much off topic by now.
