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the_shadock

a new display at the Tank Museum :
http://www.tankmuseum.org/ixbin/indexplus?record=ART4550&_IXMENU_=news_and_events

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/11546940.New_Fury_exhibition_launched_at_Bovington_Tank_Museum_ahead_of_Brad_Pitt_film_release/

P-O

TimRoyall

Saw the film this morning in Imax. Wow...

binder001 · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 25, 2006 Posts: 363

Does anyone know if the displayed tank is the "primary" Fury - the M4A2E8 or is it the "replacement" Fury, the cobbled together M4 (105mm)/76mm turret? It looks like the museum has Fury with the right-hand logs blown away (from the Tiger fight). Still a neat idea to tank what was an "ordinary" M4A2E8 and show it as a movie star. It captures an interesting time in the life of one particular tank.

the_shadock

hello,

the tank displayed is the M4A2E8, which has a different srpocket than the M4(105) with 76mm turret

SanderD · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: May 23, 2014 Posts: 17

I saw the movie this thursday, WOW.
It's definitely one that can be counted in my top 4 war movies

Cheers

Sander

C_Sherman · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 590

Excellent movie, as long as you don't expect a documentary about tank tactics and operations. Which would be unreasonable to expect from a Hollywood movie anyway. If you want to see how tank crews really act around each other, and explore the bonds between each other and with their tank, then it's an outstanding and gripping movie. I recommend it, and also put it on my list of top 4 war movies!

vagabond

The latest issue of Classic Military Vehicles (Dec 2014) has a big spread on the film. Lots of photos and interesting info on the making of the film.

Costas_TT · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Feb 15, 2012 Posts: 387

Just came out of the theater. Just like it was already said here, it was no documentary, but a damn good film.

Doug_Kibbey

- C_Sherman

Excellent movie, as long as you don't expect a documentary about tank tactics and operations. Which would be unreasonable to expect from a Hollywood movie anyway. If you want to see how tank crews really act around each other, and explore the bonds between each other and with their tank, then it's an outstanding and gripping movie. I recommend it, and also put it on my list of top 4 war movies!

...and the frictions. Both are always present in an environment where you can never really escape each other. This is rarely captured well in cinema, but this is an exception.

Massimo_Foti

Fury at Bovington:
www.tankmuseum.org/ixb...xhibitions

Massimo_Foti

M4A3E8 "Fury" by Massimo Foti, on Flickr

bsmart

Can anyone imagine stacking that many ammo cans that neatly to get up to a tanks gun barrel? And can anyone imagine the stack being stable? I've used 20mm Ammo cans (much larger) as a work bench, saw horse, etc ant they aren't stable enough that I would stack them 4 or 5 cans high without using rope or tiedown straps around the perimeterto bind them together.

VonForhud · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Mar 17, 2010 Posts: 162

Why would you put yellow sandbags on a vehicle that is olive drab? Only makes it more visible and offers no protection Imho.

An 88 shell or a Panzerschreck would go through a Sherman 7 days a week sandbag or no sandbag.

armyjunk2 · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Sep 22, 2006 Posts: 1416

Non Fat early Elvis, Fort Knox Library had several of these pics ........I wonder why these pics come out so big.

clausb · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 25, 2006 Posts: 146

- VonForhud

Why would you put yellow sandbags on a vehicle that is olive drab? Only makes it more visible and offers no protection Imho.

An 88 shell or a Panzerschreck would go through a Sherman 7 days a week sandbag or no sandbag.

...because sandbags come in that natural, brown-yellow colour and are a bitch to paint..? Smile

As I understand it, sandbags would likely work against WWII HEAT rounds by

- adding some distance between the HEAT round and the main armour, though probably not enough to defeat a large Panzerfaust round or Panzerschreck
- by being relatively soft and flexible. WWII HEAT seems to have been easily defeated by various movable or flimsy parts on the target like roadwheels, exhaustmufflers etc.

In any case, it would be a one-shot protection, as the blast from the HEAT round would remove the sandbags.

As for kinetic penetrators like an 88mm APCBC/HE round - probably not much effect unless the sandbag could somehow trigger the fuze and make the round detonate prematurely.

On the other hand, a fully sandbagged Sherman would have 2-3 tons added to its weight, probably even more in wet weather when the sandbags became waterlogged. That likely had a detremental effect on performance and realiability.

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