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Old March 9th, 2005, 05:27 PM
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I had indeed read an Osprey book about the Sherman, pretty good I think, which gave me a very good insight of the tank and ist bad reputation.

I think that, rather than its armour and gun, the problem with the Sherman was its high profile and the narrow tracks, which made the 25-ton tank to have a pressure on the ground of about 900 grams per square centimetres, whilst the Tiger I & II, weighing 60-70 tons, had a pressure of 750 per square cm!
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