Allies Outgunned, OutmaneuveredĪs their British and Canadian allies had already learned, the GIs and their officers soon came to respect the resolute fighting qualities of their enemy. With their long range and thick armor, German Tiger tanks would prove throughout the war that one could hold off ten or more M4 Sherman tanks. In combat, however, from the tangled Normandy hedgerows all the way to the gates of the Third Reich, the Americans found themselves learning bitter lessons and losing their innate naiveté. The GIs believed that, man for man, they were better soldiers than their foes and that they had more and better weapons and vehicles. But, like their fathers two and a half decades earlier, they were in for a rude awakening at the hands of the seasoned, ruthless German Army. Producer Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant and American Locomotive Co.When American soldiers landed in France in June 1944 as part of the great Allied crusade to liberate Europe, they were well trained, fully equipped, and brimming with confidence. I just noticed, the interiour shots show a steering mechanism that isn't correct for Tigers OR M47's! It shows the typical two-lever system Tigers use a steering wheel, whilst M47's had a single joystick that acted for both steering and gear shift. Spain didn't have any Tiger IIs, so they didn't exactly have an option. (Although the muzzlebreak on this tank isnt the one manufactured with it but added by the Spanish army.)Īntp wrote Other Patton were listed as ChryslerĪlso, US nomenclature does not use dashes, at least outside aviation. The differences between this and the M-48 is that the M-48 had wider fenders, no hull machine gun, horizontally arranged headlamps, square manlet, no side-turret mounded scopes, no storage bin on the back of the turret, and usually a different muzzlebreak. the movie was filmed in spain and they used spanish army vehicles I think that it is a M-48 Patton spanish army. Patton tanks were designed by the Detroit Arsenal and built there and by the American Locomotive company.
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