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Battle of kursk sherman tank crew survival rate
Battle of kursk sherman tank crew survival rate








If that was so, Fury would have probably been a much earlier model M4 Sherman, like an M2 or M4A3, each of which went into production in 1942.

battle of kursk sherman tank crew survival rate

Supposedly, they’ve all been fighting together – in Fury – since the North Africa campaign in 1942. In the film, since a point is made in the movie that Collier loves his tank, and he and the crew have named it “Fury” – the name they’ve painted on its 76 mm gun barrel. And he wouldn’t have been fighting a German Tiger TI – but we digress. If the movie was based on a real character – and supposedly it is not – Collier would not have been driving an Easy Eight. In the movie, it was a Sherman M4A3E8, more commonly known as an “Easy Eight”.

battle of kursk sherman tank crew survival rate

Trivia question: What kind of tank is Pitt commanding?

battle of kursk sherman tank crew survival rate

Don “Wardaddy” Collier ( Brad Pitt) commands a tank with a five-man crew in the storied 66th Armored Regiment in the 2nd Armored Division, as it is invading the heart of Germany in April 1945 – just days before the Nazi surrender.










Battle of kursk sherman tank crew survival rate