While I have nothing against either Queen or U2, they do seem a little inappropriate for this type of video; just the raw sound of the Sherman Tank would have been far better!
"The engine has been modified by our mechanical genius Moriarty here." "Hey, babe!" "It's the fastest thing in the European theatre of operations forwards or backwards. See, we like to think we can get out of trouble quicker'n we got into it." - Oddball.
@@f-15TheFkingEagle No it was not lol, the panzer 4 compares nothing in comparison when it comes to the versatility of the Sherman for a multitude of reasons. Just because both of them are medium tanks with around the same dimensions and armament does not mean they were equal adversaries.
@@tiznaeshnishto2584 True. The Sherman was in EVERY theater of the war. It served in the West, N. Africa, Italy, S. France, the eastern front, China, the Indo-Pacific and the greater Pacific Campaign. No other tank can really claim that. The closest is the Grant/Lee. Even after WW2, it still served for a long time in active service, with the Shermans being proved the equal or better of T34s in the Korean War. The Sherman in the M50 version was in service until 1999. With Israel, it was able to take on T54/55/62 tanks. While being obsolete at the time, it was so adaptable, that it they could keep the hull while easily replacing the motor, drive train, turret, gun and fire control to keep up with the times. While not ever the "greatest" tank, it has been a icon of what an adaptable tank can do.
Hit the mute button. Otherwise its a good video. A suggestion to the maker, why not look up some of the Big Band music of the 30s and 40s, you can find some really good big beat songs that all world war 2 buffs can recognize and it will be educational to new WW 2 buffs, too.
_"Hit the mute button."_ But I wanted to hear the engine of that tank! With music or muted that video not really makes sense at least for some people, you know.
thanks to it's controlled Differential when turning it takes some speed and power out of one track and speeds up the other one causing no loss in power and at 6:52 it turned that corner as smooth as silk with almost no loss in speed just like a road car. A Clutch brake t-34 wouldn't even dream of going around a corner like that.
@@kyleminks6374cop: uh...sir...you realize you just blew through that stop sign, right? Driver: Son, you realize I'm in a TANK? Cop: Yes, sir. Have a nice day sir.
35 MPH in a Sherman? that is pretty crazy. ^_^ The tracks appeared to hold up well too. I'm assuming they are modified as I don't think they bothered with rubber pads back in the day. the barrel condom is a nice touch too. ;)
Must have been cool blasting down the Autobahn in 1945 in a 15 mile long line of Shermans, half tracks, armored cars and trucks with a few M26 Pershings.
My dad would have loved to get his hands on that..he drove a Firefly during the war..better gun, but I doubt he would have been able to catch that. But knowing dad he would have had a tinker with the engine and given you bloody good run for your money !! . Great vid
The Sherman was a great tank, with 4 engine possibilities. Most popular was a 7cylinder radial engine. Then a Ford 1000cu/in V-8 (cut down V-12 that was for aircraft, but the government didn't need it. So Ford made a V-8 out of it). Then is the Chrysler 5-6cylinder gas engines attached to a bull gear. Then is this particular one-2-GM 6-71 Diesels in tandem. Sherman was easy to use other engines since the engine was in the rear and the transmission was in the front with a driveshaft going through the entire tank. If you know 6-71's, you can plainly hear the sound in the video.
Exactly right. At first I thought I heard a V8 but the big Ford V8 didn't sound like that. But if you listen closely, you can hear those two-strokes screaming.
It was a DEATH TRAP! We just produced 10s of thousands of them Had crews to burn, literally…. Jerry built about 9000 Pzkw.s of all models, 1939-1945… Ivan built many more T-34s than all other combatants combined. The BEST tank of The War. I pissed on a riveted M4, at the Rock Island Arsenal museum. Something my uncles would have approved… THEY were in France, and then Belgium… summer and then later, 1944… ONE froze his feet... I paid attention to them, when they DID talk... Kiddies!
The sherman was a piece of shit... I have no idea why you think it was such a great tank unless you're talking about how easy they were to maintain (that's if they weren't already blown up beyond repair).
mschaffle easy to maintain, fast to manufacture, overwhelmed the nazi's tiger tanks. 50,000 of them were produced, overwhelming 1300 of the tigers. good for personnel support.
@TheTruepatriot1776 Correct, My grandfather was in an armored recon unit. Their standard orders were to engage German tanks only long enough to fix their position for an airstrike, no head to head slugfests.
The steering of this tank looks amazingly smooth. Very nice compared to so many surviving tanks. Great work! I was surprised to see the original transmission and steering set up.
Early M4 versions did have the Continental radial, but there were versions with GM diesels and Chrysler gas engines.. The US had to source power plants from a number of suppliers to keep the flow of them headed across the ocean. There are also a number of different hulls depending on where they were built and the intended powerplant.
great video, great tank. It did a great job in WW2. I climbed into one at Monte Cassino cemetery as a child, and could not believe how couped up it was inside - but I still get excited thinking about it today as then.
@Tyco200 Make no mistake, I was at a tank museum in Aberdeen Maryland, they had an example of nearly every tank sitting in field. The German "Panther" tank appeared to be the meanest on the lot. A Sherman looked like a beer can in comparison. The Panther had large scoops of armor blown away from what looked like an ice cream scoop about 5 inches deep. The Sherman was inferior in many ways, but quantity has a quality all it's own.
the Shermans used these engines:caterpiller D-200A(RD-1820)radial; chyslerA-57(multi-bank);continental or Wright R-975-EC2 or C-1; continental or wright R-975 -C-4; ford GAA-lll v-8 ;and GM 6046D twin 6-71 diesels(2- 6 cylinder diesels with superchargers). the ford and gm engines were well liked by their crews....reliable and easier to work on than the rest.
The Sherman was a good tank at the beginning of the war. It could easily take out Mark 3's and 4's and Fiats. That was the vast majority of the Axis armour that Sherman crews encountered up through the end of 1943. US/UK used their armour for infantry support not so much to engage in anti-tank combat. The Allies had overwhelming air supriority for that. The uber-menschen on this board make it sound like no German armour was ever destroyed in combat. They got Napalmed. - And ref. Arrancourt.
For all of you hating on American tanks and claiming Russia God. During the battle of Kursk 70% of all the tanks used by the Russians in this battle where American and British tanks aka Shermans etc. Also 92% of all artillery, trucks, transports etc. where American made Studebaker trucks sent to Russia via ships.
smacdiesel Seeing Bletchley Park all restored in "The Imitation Game" was worth the ticket cost, alone. To see a "Bombe" actually running, ditto… 3 AND 4 rotor (Shark) Enigmas lit up and running. Alan Touring, a hero like Fermi and Oppenheimer….getting just recognition... Treated so shabby, after The War. SHOULD have garnered a VC. IMHO J.C.
Billy Bob those t-34 were the true deathtrap dumbass the m4 had the highest survival rate of the war and the Russian enjoyed and had the tanks since the us lend leased them those 90000 tanks were shit and wouldn't last the Soviets long if they only used them. They lost around 70000-80000 of those things.
The Sherman's armour was just fine compared to the Panzer III and IV, its only the Tigers and Panthers where it becomes less effective. The early Shermans had terrible guns, but the later ones with the longer barrelled gun were fine. The Sherman was also one of the most reliable tanks of the war (only a few tanks like the GMC engined Valentine could beat it) and one of the most maintenance friendly. Being able to keep a tank going and get it back into action quickly is far more important than people would have you believe. The Panther may have outarmoured and out gunnned the Sherman, but the thing had a pitiful reliability rate, was horrendous to maintain and was less comfortable for the crew. The outcome of the war proves that the Sherman was adequate for the job. Sure, it could have had more armour and a better gun, but it did not need it to do the job. You are not correct about lend lease either. Over 4000 Shermans were sent to the USSR under lend lease (7000 tanks in total) and Britain sent over 5000 tanks as well. They even received some T26s for testing purposes.
Absolutely awesome sound, must be a killer sound inside as that radial is running that fast, and excellent steering too, now there is a man who can take corners without lifting kerb stones.. Great stuff.
Thanks for the close-up video of the track & suspension. It would have been cool to see the side view of the suspension when it was being loaded on the trailer. Looks like a blast to drive! Thanks for posting.
6:55 "Honest officer! I didn't see the stop sign!" " Also I didn't see your cruiser! I'm sure a good body shop can take that dent out of the roof real easy".
I wouldn't slate the American tank production too much, the Sherman may have been outclassed in armour and fire power by late war German vehicles, but it was easy to build and relatively reliable, which turned out to have been more important in the end. Although, the British versions with 17pdrs actually had a fighting chance against panthers etc! In the end numbers one it, as a German tank commander once said, 'it takes 5 of your Shermans for one of our tanks, but there always seem to be 6'.
Good to see one of these tanks in action! My late Grandpa was a WWII tank Commander. His stateside tank had the big DOHC Ford V8 and the overseas tank had the crappy radial engine. he spoke of these diesels but he never drove one. Are they 2-stroke Detroits?
In the case of the A2s, yes. In the case of the A6, no. The A6 carried a Caterpillar D200A diesel radial (converted Curtiss-Wright 1820 Cyclone gasoline), which was even more massive than the A4's problematic Chrysler 5-bank.
@@brutalnyas5639 they were designe as a anti-infantry tank but revealed itself to be the best tank a country could wish for to win a war of autritionike ww2
I actually own a B17 flying fortress and an m3 halftrack and a 1941 willys jeep and a ton of firearms from ww2 still operational and I thank my grandfather for all of the guns he was a first class sergeant in the United States 75th rangers in ww2
As much as I appreciate Queen.... it's way to loud for the kind of vid this is, plus the other music is just pitiful... Where be that Continental radial gargle!
Het blijft heerlijk om te zien! It's still great to see this video! Our reenacting group uses a sherman as well. (M4A3) AND I'M STILL IN LOVE WITH THEM!!!!
Immaculate restoration! Nice job. I can't imagine how loud that must have been inside the 'cabin'. There was no way you were sneaking up on anyone in that. I'll bet enemy forces could hear that Detroit and know it was an American tank 10 km away. There's no mistaking that 2 stroke DD, 3 cylinders or 12.
This has the 6-71N "Twin Pack".. Two GM Diesel (aka Detroit Diesels after 1965) 6-71N's (counter rotating) driving through a single, common shaft, and mounted side by side on a "unit frame". 6-71, of course means 6 cylinders - 71 cubic inches per cylinder... or, 5" stroke (total, including exhaust valve opening & port uncovering) and a 4.25" bore. The 6-110's (1945 - 1965) had a 5" bore x 5.60" stroke.
2Stroke Diesel Power I think they made about 11,000 of the GM 6046D powered M4's. I'm no expert and have never seen one, but I believe the engine used a common block for both rotating assemblies and heads but those separate crankshafts were clutched together and drove a common jackshaft to the transmission.
Aaron Barker Hi Aaron... thanks for the reply... I'm No "expert" either, but I do know that up until GM Diesel (as it was branded until 1965 - then Detroit Diesel, thereafter) developed the V8's 12's etc.. that it was standard practice to utilize "multiple engine" packs in various configurations in order to meet horsepower demands in various applications.... and the M4's that I have seen "apart" for restoration that were GM powered, were all running 6-71 Twin Packs running in counter rotation setups driving though a common clutch & final drive.... and that is all I have to go by, myself... when it comes to tanks. : )
The teen age boy in me likes the naked woman graphic on the front side of the tank. The old man in me likes the sound of the engine! The US has gotten so politically correct that 18 wheeler transports can't come on bases if they have the naked woman mud flaps on their trucks. Stupid.
The Military is THE most PC Organization in the Country thanks to Morons like Obama and the Liberal Fools who Elected him twice...Trump 2016.... or this Country is gone for good...
Harry Kuheim Exactly right and now we're putting women in combat units. Trump is my choice and although he wasn't my first choice I do believe that Trump cares about the country and wants to get it back on the right track. Obamanation and Hildabeast each have their own agenda. Hildabeast wants to be the pay to play POTUS, just like she was the pay to play Secretary of State with the corrupt Clinton Foundation aka the make the Clinton's rich Foundation.
Met a guy who drove his Sherman at speed across Italy to get to the city of Trieste before the Russians. They beat them to the city and then had a Mexican standoff at a bridge with the Kiwi manned Shermans facing down the T34s, Russians kept out. He said that they did have rubber on the tracks to make it easier on the road, gave them grip and protected the tracks somewhat, but he admitted that towards the end of their run the tracks were throwing them off they were taking such a beating. He passed in 1980s, proud of what he did, hard case alright!
The British themselves named their tanks "Tommy Cookers" in the burning _desert_ as they cook inside their metal tanks. And the name was specific to the M4. The Germans did or at least did not in documents, call the M4 Tommy Cookers. And also, Tommy is for British, not Americans. American are referred to as Johnny
Nice video. I was, however, quite relieved to hear the music finally stop, only to be discouraged when it started again. Some of us simply want to hear these beautiful machines, and nothing more.
It appears your teacher was one too. (as per previous comments. Yes, the USA did provide countries with equipment with a lend/lease scheme, but so did the UK to the USA and other allied countries!)
this is so cool i would die for the opportunity to drive or even ride in a restored WWII tank. as a kid a family friend had a restored half track we always got to ride around in down in california
@Valkmir I know which side won the war and Sherman tanks were part of the reason why. There were still many Sherman tanks operating at the end of the war and for many years after, it was the Axis tanks that "failed".
Imagine gliding down the road listening to your favorite tune and then shitting yourself when you look in the rear view mirror and see a Sherman tank tailgating you doing 88 😂
@cyber8000 You're talking about yourself, right? I'm glad there are people who put lots of time and effort into keeping those historical vehicles moving. Keep up the perfect work guys! If it ain't Dutch, it ain't much! ;)
Funny thing about Shermans. They didn't have a high silhouette, they had a narrow silhouette. The tank was as tall as a Panzer IV, yet much narrower. Because the proportions are off, it makes the Sherman look much taller than it really is. So when compared to most contemporary tanks, the Sherman was actually a harder target to hit due to being so narrow.
'I want it all, I want it now' The Sherman was fairly much the answer to that, back then. Good solid tank, decent weaponry, speed, maneuverability and so on... so, yeah, the song does fit. You just have to like rock to appreciate it fully.
@motownmaniax The M-36 was also a sherman chassis using the 90mm gun. The M--36b used the standard m4 chassis and the turret from the M-36.Showing tha Sherman could be upgunned and carry the 90mm .Postwar the Israilies got excellent use from up gunned and modernized Shermans.
@motownmaniax "Sherman models were prone to burning when struck by high velocity rounds. The Sherman gained grim nicknames like "Tommycooker" (by the Germans who referred to British soldiers as "Tommies"; a tommy cooker was a World War I era trench stove). With gallows humor, the British called it the "Ronson", after the cigarette lighter with the slogan "Lights up the first time, every time!" ."
@Zfk41 Actually it's a very well known fact that the Sherman was well built and reliable. Not only that, but actual numbers-wise, the Sherman was supposed to compete with the Panzer 3 and 4, NOT the 5 and 6. The Panther and Tiger are what caused us to build things like the M-18 Hellcat and M26 Pershing with their much more powerful guns. The issue with break downs was that Germany never really did make a lot of improvements because they didn't have the resources or manpower to do it.
Every tank has its flaws and strong points but the one thing we had over the enemy in WWII along with our allies was amount of numbers and how may tanks and vehicles we made. Still I even like seeing the German tanks at full power and going down the road like this and preforming what they where made to do. Not wanting to make an argument its just my thoughts and to the guys that did this, You all have my thanks and AWSOME JOB!
Why do people ruin a great Video with Music? The best Music is the sound of the engine.
agreed 1000000%
+Ismir Wurscht Modern Disease - drown everything out with unecessary music
how are tanks legal on roads
+Kevin Roth Put rubber tracks, safety belt, rear view mirrors and deactivate the armament and it's legal in most countries.
Ismir Wurscht
It made me laugh when the tank blew past the stop sign at 6:57 but then who doesn't yield to a tank? Lol.
Never realized how fast the Sherman could move!! Awesome!!
While I have nothing against either Queen or U2, they do seem a little inappropriate for this type of video; just the raw sound of the Sherman Tank would have been far better!
"The engine has been modified by our mechanical genius Moriarty here."
"Hey, babe!"
"It's the fastest thing in the European theatre of operations forwards or backwards. See, we like to think we can get out of trouble quicker'n we got into it." - Oddball.
Shermans were able to do this the entire day and then go to battle. Most German and Soviet tanks would have broken down.
because they are tanks and not a tiny car in a can xD
@@ShInYaKu88 what, that doenst even make sense. The m4a1 was at the same level as a panzer 4
@@f-15TheFkingEagle No it was not lol, the panzer 4 compares nothing in comparison when it comes to the versatility of the Sherman for a multitude of reasons. Just because both of them are medium tanks with around the same dimensions and armament does not mean they were equal adversaries.
@@tiznaeshnishto2584 True. The Sherman was in EVERY theater of the war. It served in the West, N. Africa, Italy, S. France, the eastern front, China, the Indo-Pacific and the greater Pacific Campaign. No other tank can really claim that. The closest is the Grant/Lee.
Even after WW2, it still served for a long time in active service, with the Shermans being proved the equal or better of T34s in the Korean War. The Sherman in the M50 version was in service until 1999. With Israel, it was able to take on T54/55/62 tanks.
While being obsolete at the time, it was so adaptable, that it they could keep the hull while easily replacing the motor, drive train, turret, gun and fire control to keep up with the times. While not ever the "greatest" tank, it has been a icon of what an adaptable tank can do.
True
wow this vid would have been much better without music
pyrite stone Idk Queen's pretty badass
Hit the mute button. Otherwise its a good video. A suggestion to the maker, why not look up some of the Big Band music of the 30s and 40s, you can find some really good big beat songs that all world war 2 buffs can recognize and it will be educational to new WW 2 buffs, too.
" I want it all " sound pretty good to me considering the subject of the video.
_"Hit the mute button."_
But I wanted to hear the engine of that tank! With music or muted that video not really makes sense at least for some people, you know.
You must not got halfway through the video, because there is no music after that point.
thanks to it's controlled Differential when turning it takes some speed and power out of one track and speeds up the other one causing no loss in power and at 6:52 it turned that corner as smooth as silk with almost no loss in speed just like a road car.
A Clutch brake t-34 wouldn't even dream of going around a corner like that.
NedYarbNexus he weighs 30 tons and didn’t stop at the stop sign..
@@kyleminks6374cop: uh...sir...you realize you just blew through that stop sign, right?
Driver: Son, you realize I'm in a TANK?
Cop: Yes, sir. Have a nice day sir.
@Heroica Knight
Driver: Son, you realize I'm in a TANK?
Cop: Sir, you realize that the police usually is not aiming with RPGs at speedsters?
But in overall the mobility is the last aspect where I would compare it to T-34.
Not going to lie, the cornering was impressive. I also could have sworn I heard him downshift going into the turn.
35 MPH in a Sherman? that is pretty crazy. ^_^
The tracks appeared to hold up well too. I'm assuming they are modified as I don't think they bothered with rubber pads back in the day.
the barrel condom is a nice touch too. ;)
Must have been cool blasting down the Autobahn in 1945 in a 15 mile long line of Shermans, half tracks, armored cars and trucks with a few M26 Pershings.
My dad would have loved to get his hands on that..he drove a Firefly during the war..better gun, but I doubt he would have been able to catch that. But knowing dad he would have had a tinker with the engine and given you bloody good run for your money !! . Great vid
As an American, I would like to thank you for preserving this piece of WW 2 history.
That was a cool vid! Those speeds looked unreal!!! Love the Sherman tank!
Nice to see the staman sherman in action again this was filmed at the vlasakkers amersfoort netherlands
The Sherman was a great tank, with 4 engine possibilities. Most popular was a 7cylinder radial engine. Then a Ford 1000cu/in V-8 (cut down V-12 that was for aircraft, but the government didn't need it. So Ford made a V-8 out of it). Then is the Chrysler 5-6cylinder gas engines attached to a bull gear. Then is this particular one-2-GM 6-71 Diesels in tandem. Sherman was easy to use other engines since the engine was in the rear and the transmission was in the front with a driveshaft going through the entire tank. If you know 6-71's, you can plainly hear the sound in the video.
Exactly right. At first I thought I heard a V8 but the big Ford V8 didn't sound like that. But if you listen closely, you can hear those two-strokes screaming.
It was a DEATH TRAP!
We just produced 10s of thousands of them
Had crews to burn, literally….
Jerry built about 9000 Pzkw.s of all models, 1939-1945…
Ivan built many more T-34s than all other combatants combined.
The BEST tank of The War.
I pissed on a riveted M4, at the Rock Island Arsenal museum.
Something my uncles would have approved…
THEY were in France, and then Belgium… summer and then later, 1944…
ONE froze his feet...
I paid attention to them, when they DID talk...
Kiddies!
The sherman was a piece of shit... I have no idea why you think it was such a great tank unless you're talking about how easy they were to maintain (that's if they weren't already blown up beyond repair).
mschaffle
easy to maintain, fast to manufacture, overwhelmed the nazi's tiger tanks. 50,000 of them were produced, overwhelming 1300 of the tigers. good for personnel support.
S.K Yap
You don't seem to notice that the Nazis didnt drive them. Not every german is a Nazi
@TheTruepatriot1776
Correct, My grandfather was in an armored recon unit. Their standard orders were to engage German tanks only long enough to fix their position for an airstrike, no head to head slugfests.
i was told that the M4 was realy good on paved roads and your video proves that .
Loved seeing that Sherman wistleing down the road and a great tune selected for the ride too love those super Sherman's
god I would love to have one of these instead of a car
Daniel Rowe thanks to our tyrannical government we can’t... Washington is rolling in his grave
@@kyleminks6374 you can own one it just cant have active weaponry on it
Albino Earwig I am a man I need fun switches
@@kyleminks6374 I agree! Back in the day one of the founding fathers approved of a private shipping company to have artillery on its ships
Man that thing sounds awesome. She really hauls the mail too.
The steering of this tank looks amazingly smooth. Very nice compared to so many surviving tanks. Great work!
I was surprised to see the original transmission and steering set up.
Smooth because it was using rubber tracks.
From the sound of it, I'd say this was the GM 6046D engine, the U version with two 6-71's sharing a block but separate crankshafts and heads.
Correct me if im wrong but arnt the Shermans engine a radial engine? Hence the large profile.
Early M4 versions did have the Continental radial, but there were versions with GM diesels and Chrysler gas engines.. The US had to source power plants from a number of suppliers to keep the flow of them headed across the ocean. There are also a number of different hulls depending on where they were built and the intended powerplant.
Aaron Barker Ah ok thanks!
No need to hate on tanks from different Country's they are all cool tanks in my books
Now that is putting a tank through the paces. Great work on the restoration and also thanks for keeping history alive and running.
Nice, is there a version without the crap music spoiling the beautiful sound??.
Did you just call queen and u2 crap
@@aaroncheeseman9652 he did
@@aaroncheeseman9652 well they did JUST say it was crap, they said it was crap some years ago
great video, great tank. It did a great job in WW2. I climbed into one at Monte Cassino cemetery as a child, and could not believe how couped up it was inside - but I still get excited thinking about it today as then.
I must admit. I am. jealous. Could you imagine somebody rear ending that. You'd step out and say "here let me just dry your tears" .
You forgot the can of OD spray paint
@@sirswerve2493
And?
Awesome, M4 American Tank, 40 tons..70+ years old..and hauling ass!.❤ I Love it!!
especially at 7:00 thas DEFINITELY the howl of a detriot
Radial engine in this one i think.
Edit, didnt hear it idle, sounds more like a modern day engine.
@@wingsken europe shermans were 6046 power packs, which was twin 671 detroits
@Tyco200 Make no mistake, I was at a tank museum in Aberdeen Maryland, they had an example of nearly every tank sitting in field. The German "Panther" tank appeared to be the meanest on the lot. A Sherman looked like a beer can in comparison. The Panther had large scoops of armor blown away from what looked like an ice cream scoop about 5 inches deep. The Sherman was inferior in many ways, but quantity has a quality all it's own.
Wow that is fast. Sounds like they replaced the radial with something monstrous, look at that exhaust too.
Twin GM diesels were one of the engines used in Shermans.
The M4A1 only ever used a radial airplane engine. The twin diesel was given to the M4A2
Might be a ford
the Shermans used these engines:caterpiller D-200A(RD-1820)radial; chyslerA-57(multi-bank);continental or Wright R-975-EC2 or C-1; continental or wright R-975 -C-4; ford GAA-lll v-8 ;and GM 6046D
twin 6-71 diesels(2- 6 cylinder diesels with superchargers). the ford and gm engines were well liked by their crews....reliable and easier to work on than the rest.
The Sherman was a good tank at the beginning of the war. It could easily take out Mark 3's and 4's and Fiats. That was the vast majority of the Axis armour that Sherman crews encountered up through the end of 1943. US/UK used their armour for infantry support not so much to engage in anti-tank combat. The Allies had overwhelming air supriority for that.
The uber-menschen on this board make it sound like no German armour was ever destroyed in combat. They got Napalmed. - And ref. Arrancourt.
wow!
never thought a sherman would be so fast... holding steady @ 60 Km/H
thank you for the video!
30mph top speed? Sheeeit she's going faster than that son
58 km/h is like 36 mph
For a WWII tank, 36 mph is absolutely flying.
Finnaly a movie that shows you the sound off a sherman the way it was for the crew!
For all of you hating on American tanks and claiming Russia God. During the battle of Kursk 70% of all the tanks used by the Russians in this battle where American and British tanks aka Shermans etc. Also 92% of all artillery, trucks, transports etc. where American made Studebaker trucks sent to Russia via ships.
Well said and you might add that due to British Enigma decrypts the Russians were given information of the entire German battle plan.
Philip Walton Exactly, the Brits were very smart during the war, the Enigma story is amazing.
smacdiesel
Seeing Bletchley Park all restored in "The Imitation Game" was worth the ticket cost, alone.
To see a "Bombe" actually running, ditto…
3 AND 4 rotor (Shark) Enigmas lit up and running.
Alan Touring, a hero like Fermi and Oppenheimer….getting just recognition...
Treated so shabby, after The War.
SHOULD have garnered a VC.
IMHO
J.C.
Billy Bob those t-34 were the true deathtrap dumbass the m4 had the highest survival rate of the war and the Russian enjoyed and had the tanks since the us lend leased them those 90000 tanks were shit and wouldn't last the Soviets long if they only used them. They lost around 70000-80000 of those things.
The Sherman's armour was just fine compared to the Panzer III and IV, its only the Tigers and Panthers where it becomes less effective. The early Shermans had terrible guns, but the later ones with the longer barrelled gun were fine. The Sherman was also one of the most reliable tanks of the war (only a few tanks like the GMC engined Valentine could beat it) and one of the most maintenance friendly. Being able to keep a tank going and get it back into action quickly is far more important than people would have you believe. The Panther may have outarmoured and out gunnned the Sherman, but the thing had a pitiful reliability rate, was horrendous to maintain and was less comfortable for the crew. The outcome of the war proves that the Sherman was adequate for the job. Sure, it could have had more armour and a better gun, but it did not need it to do the job.
You are not correct about lend lease either. Over 4000 Shermans were sent to the USSR under lend lease (7000 tanks in total) and Britain sent over 5000 tanks as well. They even received some T26s for testing purposes.
Absolutely awesome sound, must be a killer sound inside as that radial is running that fast, and excellent steering too, now there is a man who can take corners without lifting kerb stones.. Great stuff.
Re-do the video without the asinine music. THEN I will watch it.
How the fuck do you call queen's music asinine?
Well I hate to be the one to tell you but
GOODBYE!
At least watch the entire video, you'd learn that the music doesn't go throughout the entire video.
Did you seriously say that about queen and u2
Thanks for the close-up video of the track & suspension. It would have been cool to see the side view of the suspension when it was being loaded on the trailer. Looks like a blast to drive! Thanks for posting.
Can't touch this.. Ta na na na na nanana, can't touch this...
I need that for my morning commute to work! Awesome!!
cut the music
Gravertrain Graveytrain
How dare you cut the Queen...
6:55 "Honest officer! I didn't see the stop sign!" " Also I didn't see your cruiser! I'm sure a good body shop can take that dent out of the roof real easy".
It would have been nice to hear the tank instead of music
You can, the music doesn't go the entire length of the video.
I wouldn't slate the American tank production too much, the Sherman may have been outclassed in armour and fire power by late war German vehicles, but it was easy to build and relatively reliable, which turned out to have been more important in the end. Although, the British versions with 17pdrs actually had a fighting chance against panthers etc! In the end numbers one it, as a German tank commander once said, 'it takes 5 of your Shermans for one of our tanks, but there always seem to be 6'.
Can the music
Yes it can.
Good to see one of these tanks in action! My late Grandpa was a WWII tank Commander. His stateside tank had the big DOHC Ford V8 and the overseas tank had the crappy radial engine. he spoke of these diesels but he never drove one. Are they 2-stroke Detroits?
In the case of the A2s, yes. In the case of the A6, no. The A6 carried a Caterpillar D200A diesel radial (converted Curtiss-Wright 1820 Cyclone gasoline), which was even more massive than the A4's problematic Chrysler 5-bank.
As I recall Sherman's were designed for speed, but who would have thought over 32 tons could move that fast?
The designers
I mean the Abrams weighs over 80 tons and can go over 40.
The Abrams weighs about 60 tons and does 45mph. It could probably do 60, maybe 70, but it's limited to 45 for safety.
They were designed for crew survivabilty
@@brutalnyas5639 they were designe as a anti-infantry tank but revealed itself to be the best tank a country could wish for to win a war of autritionike ww2
I actually own a B17 flying fortress and an m3 halftrack and a 1941 willys jeep and a ton of firearms from ww2 still operational and I thank my grandfather for all of the guns he was a first class sergeant in the United States 75th rangers in ww2
As much as I appreciate Queen.... it's way to loud for the kind of vid this is, plus the other music is just pitiful...
Where be that Continental radial gargle!
Grasshopper K this one was powered by a twin Detroit two stroke diesel with twin super chargers and intercoolers. AkA scream’n jimmy!
Het blijft heerlijk om te zien!
It's still great to see this video! Our reenacting group uses a sherman as well. (M4A3)
AND I'M STILL IN LOVE WITH THEM!!!!
I would have given this video a thumbs up instead of a thumbs down, but that music fucking sucks.
Turn down the volume and go get you lawn mower and start it up, turn the throttle on high and enjoy!
Beautiful piece of machinery. Absolutely astounding!
Why the poxy music
Cause Queen is better
Immaculate restoration! Nice job. I can't imagine how loud that must have been inside the 'cabin'. There was no way you were sneaking up on anyone in that. I'll bet enemy forces could hear that Detroit and know it was an American tank 10 km away. There's no mistaking that 2 stroke DD, 3 cylinders or 12.
This has the 6-71N "Twin Pack".. Two GM Diesel (aka Detroit Diesels after 1965) 6-71N's (counter rotating) driving through a single, common shaft, and mounted side by side on a "unit frame". 6-71, of course means 6 cylinders - 71 cubic inches per cylinder... or, 5" stroke (total, including exhaust valve opening & port uncovering) and a 4.25" bore. The 6-110's (1945 - 1965) had a 5" bore x 5.60" stroke.
2Stroke Diesel Power
I think they made about 11,000 of the GM 6046D powered M4's. I'm no expert and have never seen one, but I believe the engine used a common block for both rotating assemblies and heads but those separate crankshafts were clutched together and drove a common jackshaft to the transmission.
Aaron Barker
Hi Aaron... thanks for the reply... I'm No "expert" either, but I do know that up until GM Diesel (as it was branded until 1965 - then Detroit Diesel, thereafter) developed the V8's 12's etc.. that it was standard practice to utilize "multiple engine" packs in various configurations in order to meet horsepower demands in various applications.... and the M4's that I have seen "apart" for restoration that were GM powered, were all running 6-71 Twin Packs running in counter rotation setups driving though a common clutch & final drive.... and that is all I have to go by, myself... when it comes to tanks. : )
Hellcat could do 60 on a good road.
+Arrow to the Knee Yes the Hellcat was the fastest.
The A-27M Cromwell could do 64kmph on a smooth terrain.
Hellcat could acchieve 113kmh on road
@@ARC_Convoy he was talking miles... 60 Miles, not kph
Dean Hedgehog oh my bad
When I was young, we had a neighbor that claimed he humped an 8 ft ditch with a Sherman. He said he was being chased by a Tiger at the time 😆
must be one of oddballs tanks lol
Cool high speed run. Pulled 5% off the track pads more in high speed turns on hard ball.
The teen age boy in me likes the naked woman graphic on the front side of the tank. The old man in me likes the sound of the engine! The US has gotten so politically correct that 18 wheeler transports can't come on bases if they have the naked woman mud flaps on their trucks. Stupid.
The Military is THE most PC Organization in the Country thanks to Morons like Obama and the Liberal Fools who Elected him twice...Trump 2016.... or this Country is gone for good...
Harry Kuheim Exactly right and now we're putting women in combat units. Trump is my choice and although he wasn't my first choice I do believe that Trump cares about the country and wants to get it back on the right track. Obamanation and Hildabeast each have their own agenda. Hildabeast wants to be the pay to play POTUS, just like she was the pay to play Secretary of State with the corrupt Clinton Foundation aka the make the Clinton's rich Foundation.
Met a guy who drove his Sherman at speed across Italy to get to the city of Trieste before the Russians. They beat them to the city and then had a Mexican standoff at a bridge with the Kiwi manned Shermans facing down the T34s, Russians kept out.
He said that they did have rubber on the tracks to make it easier on the road, gave them grip and protected the tracks somewhat, but he admitted that towards the end of their run the tracks were throwing them off they were taking such a beating. He passed in 1980s, proud of what he did, hard case alright!
I've seen a faster Sherman
one commander: oddball
See. There you go again with them negative waves.
The fact it’s a tank and not a car makes it look like it’s going twice as fast as it really is
germans named this tank tommy cooker ww2.
diveplane11 no they did not.
@@iamkarma4819 of course they called them Tommy Cooker! My Grandpa was an Afrika Corps member and He told it to me when i was a boy.
@@marcoh.3467 No they didnt. Its post war propaganda
The British themselves named their tanks "Tommy Cookers" in the burning _desert_ as they cook inside their metal tanks. And the name was specific to the M4. The Germans did or at least did not in documents, call the M4 Tommy Cookers. And also, Tommy is for British, not Americans. American are referred to as Johnny
Bloody hell. I've never seen a Sherman go that fast.
And always this terrible music.......
Is that a museum piece or a private collectors? Its sweet either way,but someone did a nice job restoring that WW2 tank...
Ruined by the music.
your speed ometer looked like it was going about 58 miles an hour thats flying, and i liked the stop sign you blew
Nice video. I was, however, quite relieved to hear the music finally stop, only to be discouraged when it started again. Some of us simply want to hear these beautiful machines, and nothing more.
It appears your teacher was one too. (as per previous comments. Yes, the USA did provide countries with equipment with a lend/lease scheme, but so did the UK to the USA and other allied countries!)
we had other prototypes rolling around, but the mass production capability of the sherman was vastly higher then anythign the germans could handle.
this is so cool i would die for the opportunity to drive or even ride in a restored WWII tank. as a kid a family friend had a restored half track we always got to ride around in down in california
How cool would that be to commute in, no stop-and-go for that bad boy!!! Awesome footage!
Love this video. Never seen a Sherman tank so close and so long. Good video
@Valkmir I know which side won the war and Sherman tanks were part of the reason why. There were still many Sherman tanks operating at the end of the war and for many years after, it was the Axis tanks that "failed".
Imagine gliding down the road listening to your favorite tune and then shitting yourself when you look in the rear view mirror and see a Sherman tank tailgating you doing 88 😂
Enemies are expecting planes, looking up in the sky and get run over by the tanks. True story.
@cyber8000 You're talking about yourself, right? I'm glad there are people who put lots of time and effort into keeping those historical vehicles moving. Keep up the perfect work guys!
If it ain't Dutch, it ain't much! ;)
That thing motor's @3:52 , Whats it's top end to make it the fastest in Europe??
Blijft nogsteeds ontzettend indrukwekkend om te zien. Zou graag een keer meerijden.
Actually there was a fifth engine used. Was the Wright radial that made into a Diesel by Caterpillar. Gasoline put out 800hp, the Diesel around 450hp.
General Patton would have been proud to have this tank in his command!
Wow that Sherman was moving!!! What mods did you do?
Was the music supposed to accomplish something?
How much is it making? 50? Nice vid!
Funny thing about Shermans. They didn't have a high silhouette, they had a narrow silhouette. The tank was as tall as a Panzer IV, yet much narrower. Because the proportions are off, it makes the Sherman look much taller than it really is. So when compared to most contemporary tanks, the Sherman was actually a harder target to hit due to being so narrow.
'I want it all, I want it now' The Sherman was fairly much the answer to that, back then. Good solid tank, decent weaponry, speed, maneuverability and so on... so, yeah, the song does fit. You just have to like rock to appreciate it fully.
Whoever is driving that thing really knows how to handle!
Especially the downshifts!
@motownmaniax
The M-36 was also a sherman chassis using the 90mm gun. The M--36b used the standard m4 chassis and the turret from the M-36.Showing tha Sherman could be upgunned and carry the 90mm .Postwar the Israilies got excellent use from up gunned and modernized Shermans.
@motownmaniax "Sherman models were prone to burning when struck by high velocity rounds. The Sherman gained grim nicknames like "Tommycooker" (by the Germans who referred to British soldiers as "Tommies"; a tommy cooker was a World War I era trench stove). With gallows humor, the British called it the "Ronson", after the cigarette lighter with the slogan "Lights up the first time, every time!" ."
@Zfk41 Actually it's a very well known fact that the Sherman was well built and reliable. Not only that, but actual numbers-wise, the Sherman was supposed to compete with the Panzer 3 and 4, NOT the 5 and 6. The Panther and Tiger are what caused us to build things like the M-18 Hellcat and M26 Pershing with their much more powerful guns. The issue with break downs was that Germany never really did make a lot of improvements because they didn't have the resources or manpower to do it.
@Zfk41
Very few were maintained after the war, there are only a few museum pieces left
Cool video, what is the top speed of a sherman? seems to go pretty fast ^^
Is there a video of an M18 Hellcat going full speed out there? I read they could reach 55 MPH on a good day.
Nice to.see.a great tank getting some exercise. Awesome tank. Thanks for sharing it with us!!
@3Sleipnir Russia needed American supplies to do their part it was called Lend Lease
Mooi om te zien zeg. Waar staat deze tank nu? En doen jullie wel eens demo's?
Every tank has its flaws and strong points but the one thing we had over the enemy in WWII along with our allies was amount of numbers and how may tanks and vehicles we made. Still I even like seeing the German tanks at full power and going down the road like this and preforming what they where made to do.
Not wanting to make an argument its just my thoughts and to the guys that did this, You all have my thanks and AWSOME JOB!