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[–]brownribbon -2ポイント-1ポイント  (4子コメント)

Uhh....weren't panzers vastly superior to the Sherman?

[–]R_B_Kazenzakis 5ポイント6ポイント  (2子コメント)

Ni.

Most of them(3s and 4s) weren't. The Sherman functionally had similar front armor thickness as a Tiger thanks to the slope, and in Normandy the hedgerows limited the distance advantages of the Panther and Tiger main guns, while mitigating the disadvantages the Sherman main guns had.

As it is the panzers that were on paper superior to the Sherman had significant problems. Poor metallurgy(Soviet tests with captured King Tigers were particularly damning), poor build quality, gas guzzlers, and very unreliable. Add in the refusal on the part of the US armor Corps to never send tanks in in singletons(compared to the Germans) they were pretty much fucked.

[–]JustARandomCatholic 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Here's a great article on the French perspective of the Panther. The French used them for about twice as long as the Germans did.

[–]anothernic 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Arguably the Pz IV later revisions were very good, and might have given the krauts a better chance if they'd never gone down the Tiger rabbit hole. Especially considering Hitler delayed Kursk to let the salient fortify, and then had horrible non-combat failure rates for the first Panthers & Tigers. That did improve late war, however.

"Statistics from 15 March 1945 show reliability rates of 59 percent for the Tiger, almost equal to the 62 percent of the Panzer IV and better than the 48 percent of the Panther were operational by this period.[29]"

Sherman side/rear armor was crap too. That said, the Firefly / M4A8 and other up-gunned models were a good match for most of what they met. The US had the original Sherman designs with a gun that wouldn't pen front kraut armor in greater numbers in Europe than they did anything else, forcing the US to use flanking maneuvers on a tank that could shoot to 1.6km.

[–]JustARandomCatholic 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

One of the largest tank actions the Americans fought in France, the Battle of Arracourt, the Americans traded 32 tanks lost for 86 German tanks, including a crap ton of Panthers, destroyed. "Panzer" in German just means armor, so that term includes everything from upgunned halftracks and StuGs to King Tigers. The later marks, Panther and King Tiger especially, had better armor and cannon than the Shermans, absolutely, but they had severe drawbacks in other places, and the Shermans readily defeated the most numerous types of German armor.