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Tanks in Ukraine and in History

The Victor Davis Hanson Show

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Sherman Tanks - The Most Reliable Tank of Warsaw

We built almost 50 thousand of them. We learned to put the shells in the back. They made trap doors at the bottom so people could get out. Of all the tanks that blew up, it was very rare that five people died. Usually two or three survivedad and they were very easy to maintain. If you happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time on the western front, and you were in sherman and you saw a panther, a tiger on a die, but that was very rare. When we went into korea, they were still using upgraded sherman's. They had pershings, but they felt they were too slow or underpowered. And

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