"In the final days of World War II, as U.S. troops advanced into Aschaffenberg, they encountered stiff German resistance in the form of something familiar: a Sherman tank, one of its beutepanzers, aka "loot tanks," equipment seized in previous battles. In war, the loot can be as dangerous as anything.
Mark Felton, a prolific military history YouTuber, recently uploaded a new video about the U.S. Army's unlikeliest of adversaries: M4 "Sherman" tanks. The Sherman medium tank was the most widely used tank of World War II. Designed and manufactured in the United States, it equipped the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps and was lent in large numbers to the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Brazil, Poland, South Africa, Australia, and the Soviet Union.
German troops first encountered the Sherman in North Africa, where M4A1 tanks were captured from the U.S. 1st Armored Division. U.S. Army troops, inexperienced in combat, turned in several less-than-stellar performances during the Tunisian campaign, particularly at the Battle of Sidi Bou Zid, and abandoned tanks and other equipment on the battlefield. The Germany Army shipped at least one Sherman home to Kummersdorf, home of the Wehrmacht's weapon testing center…"
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