What do Germans think about "Fury"?
If there are any German people reading this, what do you think about FURY? I'm certain you knew German WWII tanks generally outclassed American ones except for the M26 Pershing. Late in 1944 the Americans introduced the M36 'Jackson' tank destroyer, basically an M10 with a 90mm cannon instead of the 3-inch (76.2mm) of the M10. The M36 could knock out any German tank, BUT, the M36 still had the thin front glacis armor of the M10 and its vulnerable open top turret. The M26 Pershing was America's penultimate tank, equal to and capable of knocking out Germany's best, the Panzer Mk IV, the Panther, the Tiger I and even the vaunted Tiger II.
After the war it became known in America that the M4 Sherman was inferior to the German tanks. It took 4 to 5 M4 Shermans to destroy one German panther, tiger I or tiger II. M4 losses were high. But since America won the war, it wasn't a big deal it seemed. But it was a BIG deal with the U.S. Army. The disaster against the German tanks influenced American tanks after the war. With the exception of the postwar light M46 Walker bulldog tank, the American Army standardized on heavy tanks. That is something the U.S. should have done in 1943, not 1945 when the war was just a little under three months from the end.