Of great historical value!

Although you don't see the burning bodies, etc., the movie describes accurately the struggle of American tank crews in standard-issue M4 Sherman tanks to go head to head with better equipped German armor in the early years of WW II. It then describes the relief felt when new Shermans with better armor and guns were delivered in 1944, late in the war but never too soon for the American tank crews. The movie ends with the triumphant introduction of the M26 Pershing heavy tank, a great success -- but ironically, not in WWII but rather in the Korean War, as WWII ended before the Pershing could see much service. Few American military films deal with tanks except in a generic way. This may be the sole American film to deal honesty with the tanks, if not with the terror of warfare.