A ride in the famous tank "Fury"
TANKS!
Or rather, TANK! I was given the chance to inspect and ride about in the tank used to play the lead and title role in the film 'Fury', so naturally I took it.
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For those interested, below is a list of Shermans in order of production commencement taken from a site I highly recommend for the unique history of the Sherman tank: http://the.shadock.free.fr/sherman_minutia/index.html. M4A1 (w/ 75 mm gun) - Feb’42; M4A2 (w/ 75 mm gun) - Apr’42; M4A3 (w/ 75 mm gun) - Jun’42; M4 (w/ 75 mm gun) - Jul’42; M4A4 (w/ 75 mm gun) - Jul’42; M4A6 (w/ 75 mm gun) - Oct’43; M4A1 (w/ 76 mm gun) - Jan’44; M4 (w/ 105 mm gun) - Feb’44; M4A3 (w/ 76 mm gun) - Mar’44; M4A2 (w/ 76 mm gun) - May’44; M4A3 (w/ 105 mm gun) - May’44; M4A3 (w/ 76 mm gun & HVSS) - Aug’44; M4 (w/ 105 mm gun & HVSS) - Sep’44; M4A3 (w/ 105 mm gun & HVSS) - Sep’44; M4A1 (w/ 76 mm gun & HVSS) - Jan’45; M4A2 (w/ 76 mm gun & HVSS) - Jan’45. I think a lot of people don’t know that the first Sherman was the M4A1 and not the M4.
I couldn’t help but cringe every time I heard the gears on that poor tank grinding.
I was surprised that they gave you a ladder for "health and safety," but you weren't given a helmet. There are so many ways to split your scalp inside a tank, as you found out when you banged your head on the M2 ammo box!
We didn't go over any significant bumps. The norm inside a WW2 British tank was to wear a beret or be bareheaded. Americans and Russians had helmets of a few sorts. I don't think the Germans had them either.
How bloody cool.. Unlike the actual movie. ~ sighs ~