| Jim Selzer | 15 Apr 2018 1:10 a.m. PST |
Dwight David Eisenhower does need no "stinkin tank" he's got an aircraft carrier named after him |
Winston Smith  | 15 Apr 2018 1:32 a.m. PST |
Custer doesn't.
That's the only one that jumps out at me.
However, he's become a bit of a joke for obvious reasons. Rommel was a "good German", so we graciously grant the Germans the right to name a tank for him. |
 Flashman14 | 15 Apr 2018 3:32 a.m. PST |
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| Gunfreak | 15 Apr 2018 4:40 a.m. PST |
You can't name a tank Eisenhower. Takes to long to say. Before you've finished saying that tanks name some Russian will have blown a hole in it |
| Major Mike | 15 Apr 2018 5:44 a.m. PST |
General David Perkins, he lead the Thunder Run to Baghdad. |
| Frederick | 15 Apr 2018 7:18 a.m. PST |
Interesting list How does poor old Fitz John Porter make the list? Not a bad guy but not someone you name a tank after – same for Ambrose Burnside I like General Grey |
| rmaker | 15 Apr 2018 9:52 a.m. PST |
Custer DID have a tank named after him. The M-27 medium was to be the General Custer, but it was never standardized, since the heavy tank development, the M-26 Pershing went into production instead. And the M-27 would have had another, more tongue-in-check nickname. It had an electric transmission/final drive and the Ordnance Corps testers usually referred to it as the "General Electric". |
| Tommy20 | 15 Apr 2018 11:27 a.m. PST |
Poll is null and void. The correct answer, Buford, was not listed even though nominated twice. |
| robert piepenbrink | 15 Apr 2018 12:45 p.m. PST |
You know, if we were being serious about this--successful US cavalry or armor officers--we'd have Light Horse Harry Lee and William Washington on the short list. Neither one will happen, of course. Oh. Following up on the thread. I've heard before that our M-3 Mediums were Lees and the ones issued to the British were Grants. But I've also read Robinett's Armor Command, and he never refers to the M-3 mediums under his command as anything but Grants. Tommy20, have patience. This is poll 1A. We may yet see Buford and Kearney. |
| Big Red | 16 Apr 2018 5:08 a.m. PST |
The Dwight David Eisenhower would be the M2 Ike. |
| DeRuyter | 17 Apr 2018 10:30 a.m. PST |
And Montgomery would be the "Monty" |
| Mithmee | 17 Apr 2018 12:06 p.m. PST |
True but it wouldn't do anything until it had every other Monty in the right place and even then it still might not do anything. |
| Volleyfire | 18 Apr 2018 10:13 a.m. PST |
The Monty tank would require a double so you could fool the enemy. |
