This Is the Story of a U.S. Soldier Who Fought World War II in His Tank

Thank you for the great history share. Great read.

This sounds like the advent of Patton in North Africa. He turned the beleaguered army around. He took his army to Sicily and chased the Germans out. He was much feared by the Germans. The speed of his advancement and attacks were mind boggling considering he had to move 90,000 soldiers and thousands of vehicles.

Just one small niggle - from the article, not the vet - the US 75mm was most certainly *NOT* a match up to the German 75mm tank gun. The German gun was high-velocity and the USA one was for infantry support. This is why our losses in armor were as high as they were. The auto-loader did help, but not enough (obviously) to make a battlefield difference. When the USA war machine and its air umbrella operated as planned, the results were German death. But when USA armor went toe to toe with the odd German Panzer IV, Panther or Tiger, the results were sadly, American body bags.

Late in the war, the M-4AE8 would introduce a high velocity 76mm anti-aircraft gun which would handily eat German armor by the mouthful. But the regulation 75mm was a bunker buster/infantry support weapon only. Now, in the Pacific, the M-4 was the equivalent to the Tiger, to the poor Japanese. But in Europe, the M-4 was a death trap.