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How can the Sherman be considered the best tank of WW2 when my gf is literally half the size of it?
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post feet
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>>30075537
Good point, your gf can probably hold twice as many men inside her.
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>>30075537
What does her asshole smell like?
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>>30075537
Is that the escort you hired because your multi-ton, tank sized gf can't leave the house?

Or can you just not use English correctly?
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>>30075557
His gf is only half the size of a Sherman, give her a break.
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>Not dating loli-tank.
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Post nudes of her. It's almost fap time.
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>>30075537
I'll give you three (3) dollars and 54 cents in small coins to take her picture straddling the gun barrel.
I'm prepared to go as high as 4 dollar$ if she can do the duck face at the same time.
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I take it you GF is off frame eating a small Asian family?
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>>30075537
Because it's still smaller than your mother
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>>30075537
Let's see how her Tits compare to the cannon size
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Post chesticles
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>>30075549
Equal parts curry, onion, and deli ham
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>>30075546
lol rekt
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>>30075546
Tyrannosaurus REKT
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>>30075546
underrated post
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senpai
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>>30075648
>(3) dollars and 54 cents in small coins
>I'm prepared to go as high as 4 dollar$

Kek
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>>30075546
Game over.
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>>30075546
Damn son.
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>>30075546
The spirit of the Sherman speaks through this post
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>>30075546
Time to log off OP. You just got shrekt.
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>>30075537
Hold the fuck on. Are there actually people who argue that the Sherman was the best tank of WW2?
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>>30075537
There's not really that much of a size difference between any of the tanks. Tigers were only a bit taller than Shermans, Shermans were only a bit larger than T-34s, etc.
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>>30076336
It'd be pretty hard to find one better. Flexible, well built, modular, very comfortable and survivable for their crew, and able to take on anything else, to include heavy tanks, with at least some degree of effectiveness.
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>>30075546
Words don't apply to my reaction. Nor does an image. Rekt like a motherfucker. Holy shit.
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>>30076336
Yes, because most of the people arguing for Tigers or T-34s are just basing their arguments on memes.
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>>30076336
Tactics win battles, logistics win wars
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>>30075537
The Sherman was the best because it was a cheap piece of shit that we could make tens of thousands of and treat as an expendable resource to overwhelm the Germans with sheer numbers.

There were nearly twice as many Shermans as ever Nazi tank variant throughout the war combined, and 100 times more Shermans than King Tiger tanks.
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>>30076336
Mostly just murritards who are too contrarian to pick a Russian or German tank.
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>>30076485
I think you have the Sherman confused with the T-34.
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>>30075537

wow, great thread OP
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>>30076336

There are still Sherman-based vehicles in active military service in some countries, 70 years after the war ended. The French couldn't keep a company of Panther tanks running even with support from the former factory right after the war.
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>>30076014
Indominus rekt.
A genetically engineered roast.
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>>30075546
I have never before seen somebody's shit posting career ended so efficiently.
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>>30075546
Savage
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>>30076624
Not really. T-34 was a little late to the game compared to Sherman. Made in overwhelming numbers but not there long enough to be as overwhelming as the Sherman
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>>30075546
good lord
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>>30075537
Your girlfriend is topheavy and weighs 35 tons?
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>>30075546
>today /k/ humor threads will have a new screen cap
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>>30075546
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>>30076624
>Panzer 1, 2, 3, 4
>Tiger 1, 2
>Panther

Combined 25,762

>Sherman

49,234
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>>30075546
Sepp smiles upon you, you magnificent motherfucker
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>>30075546
holy shit....
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>>30075546
Oh dear God, that is REKT.
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>>30075546
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>>30075546
/his/ crossposter here, just noting the burn for posterity
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>>30077542
The problem with that comparison is that the Sherman was higher quality than the vast majority of those. T-34's...not so much.
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>>30077692
>sherman
>not higher quality than a T34
Ok Vatnik.
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>>30075546

oh my jesus fuck that was brutal.
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>>30077710
You can't read very well, can you?
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>>30077710
Depends on the model, dumbass.
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>>30075546
Damn.
That was fucking fast. Also fucking brutal
>Mfw OP got fucking rekt
GG OP, you tried
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>>30075546
I haven't seen a sweeter burn since we left Savannah.
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>>30078220
Kek'd/10.
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>>30078220
Sherman didn't burn Savannah dumbass
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>>30075546
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>>30075546
Just spilled beer all over my self
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>>30075546
Truly a magical place.
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>>30075546
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>>30077497
See
>>30077583
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>>30075537
troll/b8 whatever that has to be the most idiotic metric to judge a tank i have ever heard of especially considering you are measuring by height and the sherman is a tall tank
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>>30075546
savage
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>>30078846
>M4 crocodile
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>>30075546

thread over

all can go home lads
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>>30075546
damn son
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>>30075537

Where's the mattress she usually carries around and have you been arrested for rape again?
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>>30075546
You sir have won the 4chan for today.
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>>30076994
Are you fucking retarded? A tank that entered production in 1940 and reached 60.000 units by the end of the war is less "overwhelming" and came "later" that tank which entered production in late 1941 and reached 50.000 units by the end of war.
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>>30075546
Holy shit.

B T F O
T
F
O

11/10
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>>30075546
Shots fired!
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>>30075546
put me in the screen cap plz
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>>30076485
And then the best tank would be the T-34. Truth is, the Sherman was outclassed by its german counterparts in terms of performance, and the russian tanks in terms of production and flexibility.
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>>30081231
>Russian
>flexibility
>had to be converted to a casemate to be anything but a mediocore tank
Nice try Ivan, but no.
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>>30076336
It is.

In the Red Army, guard units tried to get all the Shermans they could get in their hands. They absolutely loved them.
In Wermacht all captured Shermans were used extensively and again - they were loved.
All the western allied armies used and praised them too.

Then some dumb simplistic propaganda based on few incidents started to spread and the "muh deathtrap" myth started to form.
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>>30075546
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>>30075537
Variants, my friend. Sherman Easy 8 and English Firefly is one of best Sherman Variants.

And if you mean gf, we're she suppose to be about... 5.7 or 5.9 'in because that's what Sherman's chassis height level is at.
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>>30075546
If you're coming here from /r/4chan you can fuck right back off to it.
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>>30075546
Devastating
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>>30075537
Your GF is a big woman...
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>>30075546
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>>30075546
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>>30081231
>Sherman outclassed by its German counterparts
>outclassed by the Panzer III/IV
Since when?
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>>30075546
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>>30075546
Hi Redd!t, hi FJ, and hi twitter.
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>>30075537
i would like to fuck her.

i mean the tank of course, but you knew that already.
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>>30075546
Thank you Sherman-sama
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>>30075537
>literally
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>>30075546
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_burn_centers_in_the_United_States
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>>30075546
.gif related; congrats sir.
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>>30081208
no
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>>30084724
Yes
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>>30075546
Ayy.
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>>30075546
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It wasn't even funny.

Really shows the maturity level of this board. I guess school was let out early today right kiddos?
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>>30075546
wew
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>>30076698
>>30081292
Gonna need some sources to those wild claims.
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>>30075546

good post and all, but since when is "LMAO EXDEE TYRANNOSAURUS REKT" acceptable on here?
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>>30075546
include me in the screen cap

(fj admin stop shitposting you fat cunt)
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>>30085072

summerfags n shit
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>>30075546
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>>30075546
toasting in epic bread
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>>30081456

This. We have enough cancer as it is right now.
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>>30075546
KEK
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>>30085072
You came to 4chan expecting maturity? Are you legitimately autistic, or just retarded?
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>>30085072
sup OP
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>>30075537
>my gf
Go back to Mexico.
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>>30075546
Savage
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>>30075537
OP confirmed for Suicide Watch
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>>30081245
Nice try Hans, but since when was the T-34 only useful when converted into a casemate? You do realize that the T-34, a medium tank, could mount an 85mm gun, what you would normally find on a heavy tank? Whereas the original German medium tank, the PzIII, couldn't even mount a real 75mm?
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>>30075546
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>>30075546
S A V A G E
A
V
A
G
E
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>>30081626
...for you.
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>>30085271
>Gonna need some sources to those wild claims.

Not him but many Guards units did use them, though these were almost always mechanized units, not tanks corps, as the Shermans was more suited to such a role in deep battle doctrine. The mobility made them excellent for the exploitation of gaps created by the corps.

That said it wasn't like units would just request Shermans. In the Red Army crews of foreign equipment were marked as such in their personnel files and would only ever be assigned to other foreign tanks, i.e. Matilda/Valentine crews would become Sherman crews. The idea that a T-34 unit would be reequipped with Shermans, as some claim, wouldn't have happened.

Thier crews and the infantry of the mechanized units were quite fond of them, though. Tank riders like that they could dismount and take the AA .50 cal with them. The two engines could be clutched separately and their rubber track pads made it especially quiet at low speeds and is possibly why they were the first Soviet tanks in cities, most famously Vienna.
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>>30087737

At the end of the war the Soviets had the option of returning Lend Lease equipment or paying for it. That they decided to keep the Shermans says something, though they were repurposed for civilian use.

>An epitaph came out of these mournful days (how could it not), "Yesterday it was a menacing tank, and now, by order—they took off the turret—it has become a tractor. Front-line comrade, how painful to witness the death of the Emcha [Sherman]. Try not to cry!"

>The Sherman tractors of the 1st Battalion were sent to the Krasnoyarsk area [3,400 kilometers east of Moscow, in Siberia] for work in the forest industry, to clean snowdrifts from the roads (they pulled heavy metal v-plows). The vehicles were shipped in three groups, accompanied by our driver-mechanics and commanded by an officer.

>Countless hundreds of Emchas were on hand in Red Army units. In a five-day period, they all disappeared. They ceased to exist as a combat entity. They were written off at headquarters, and the matter ended. For more than a year, the Sherman turrets were preserved in motor pools. After the formations were demobilized, the turrets were carted away to weapons storage facilities.

Not sure how long they were used in civilian hands, Russia was still using some of the Lend Lease Liberty Ships until 1974.
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>>30075537
BTW OP , it's that a peruvian sherman ?
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>>30075546
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>>30075537
>literally half the size of it

faggots like you are the reason "literally" now has a second definition of "figuratively"
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>>30081231

The Sherman was actually faster and easier to make than T-34, as well as being automotive-wise more reliable, but ok.
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>>30075546

Very well done
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>>30075546
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>>30075546
Fucking kek OP btfo consider suicide
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>>30075546
ouch
BERN!
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>>30081154
>T-34
>60,000 units

T-34s and Shermans were produced in almost the exact same number, but the Sherman was just a better tank.
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>millions of fags still replying to the post
Stop bumping this shitty thread already.
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>>30087152
>Comparing T-34/85 which came out in 1944 and weighed 34 tons to pz 3 which came out in 1939 and weighed 23 tons
>Normally finding an 85mm on a heavy tank
>85mm had penetration numbers worse than easy 8's 76mm

Fuck off Vatnik
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>>30075546
OP compleatly blown the fuck out.
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>>30075546
n o i c e
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>>30087152
>required the same kind of refit as the Panzer III to mount a decent gun until late war
>still had laughable hull armor
Silly Ivan, your tank's only saving grace was that there were so many. The burger tanks at least had some level of workmanship to theirs when they left the factory.
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>>30092676
>build a light tank and call it a medium
>cry foul when people say it's not as good as other nations' medium tanks
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>>30075546
Holy shit
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>>30075546
noice
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