M4 Sherman
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Search complete. 34 mentions across 9 episodes found for "M4 Sherman".
Sep 18, 2026
RobHOST
Did you know that? Did not.
RobHOST
It stars Brad Pitt as Staff Sergeant Don War Daddy Collier, the battle-hardened commander of a Sherman tank called Fury, operating deep inside Nazi Germany in the final weeks of the war in April 1945.
RobHOST
The ensemble cast is a roll call of serious dramatic firepower.
RobHOST
Shia LaBeouf as the quiet, deeply devout gunner Boyd Bible Swan.
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RobHOST
No, it wasn't.
RobHOST
The Tiger Tank, the working tiger used in the film, was the only operational Tiger Tank in the world.
RobHOST
Brad Pitt's preparation, Pitt trained for months with military veterans and Sherman tank crews and reportedly lived with his cast in confined quarters to build authentic camaraderie or tension, depending on the day.
RobHOST
He also studied
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
The tankers were valorous, but the 2nd Marine Division had no concept of how to employ tanks against fortified positions.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
When four Shermans reached Red Beach 3 late in the morning on D-Day, Major Crow simply waved them forward with orders to knock out all enemy positions encountered, The tank crews, buttoned up under fire, were virtually blind.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
Without a company and infantry, they were lost piecemeal, some knocked out by Japanese 75mm guns, others damaged by American dive bombers.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
Six Shermans tried to land on Red Beach One, each preceded by a dismounted guide to warn of underwater shell craters.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
The guides were shot down every few minutes by Japanese marksmen, each time another volunteer would step forward to continue the movement.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
Combat engineers had blown a hole in the seawall for the tanks to pass inland, but the way was now blocked with dead and wounded Marines.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
Rather than run over his fellow Marines, the commander reversed his column and proceeded around the bird's beak towards the second opening blasted in the seawall.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
Operating in the turbid waters now without guides, four tanks foundered in shell holes in the detour.
Tail DraggerHOST
The thrust necessary to move something that weighed over 300,000 pounds fully loaded and drag it up into the air.
Tail DraggerHOST
The design capacity, 750 soldiers or two M4 Sherman tanks in a single crossing above the submarines.
Tail DraggerHOST
The war was two years over, and now Howard Hughes was going to have to defend the thing.
Tail DraggerHOST
Senator Owen Brewster of Maine led the charge.
Tail DraggerHOST
Eight engines, Pratt and Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major radials, each one producing three thousand horsepower at takeoff, twenty-four thousand total horsepower driving eight propellers, each seventeen feet across.
Tail DraggerHOST
Design payload, seven hundred and fifty fully equipped troops or two M4 Sherman tanks carried across the Atlantic Ocean.
Tail DraggerHOST
The war ended in August of 1945.
Tail DraggerHOST
The H-4 Hercules was not finished.
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Tail DraggerHOST
The passenger and cargo compartments are accessible, and you can walk through them.
Tail DraggerHOST
Stand in the main cargo hold and think about what 750 troops in a single aircraft would actually look like.
Tail DraggerHOST
Think about two M4 Sherman tanks side by side in a flying boat's belly crossing the Atlantic at altitude.
Tail DraggerHOST
The Hercules never carried any of them, but the interior is large enough that the numbers stop being abstract when you're standing inside the hull.
GreeneHOST
Not that, you know, I'm picking sides here, but War Thunder has, I think, like 3,000 or something obscene.
GreeneHOST
Granted, half of them are M4 Shermans, but 80 gigs.
MountbattenHOST
Their models have so many more polygons than warships.
GreeneHOST
But, yeah, so I'm just pushing 14.
Tail DraggerHOST
The two men signed a government contract in November of 1942.
Tail DraggerHOST
Three flying boats, each capable of carrying 750 troops or two M4 Sherman tanks.
Tail DraggerHOST
The government would cover the cost.
Tail DraggerHOST
Budget, $18 million.
ChrisHOST
He's running two of the P40 Warhawks, which that's interesting.
ChrisHOST
And then he's running four of the M4 Shermans.
ChrisHOST
In command cards, he's running a command card for the Coast Watcher, and he's running the command card for the Hail Mary.
ChrisHOST
Is Hail Mary their lucky card? Yeah.
Uncle BeanbagHOST
It held there for a minute and then swung away, moving slowly over the other vehicles to its front.
Uncle BeanbagHOST
The light faded as the gun tube hesitated at the hulk of a German armored car and pulsated brightly as it trained on an M4 Sherman with no treads and the gun tube cut off.
Uncle BeanbagHOST
One by one it scanned the forlorn hulks with which it had shared the building and then the gun tube dropped back into its warmer position.
Uncle BeanbagHOST
The blue light faded.
Uncle BeanbagHOST
So that required hundreds of hours of man labor just to service them and to keep them in the field.
Uncle BeanbagHOST
Whereas the Shermans, you get something broken on a Sherman, It's easily replaceable.
Uncle BeanbagHOST
You have thousands of replacement parts already in theater.
Uncle BeanbagHOST
You have crews trained on what to do.
Uncle BeanbagHOST
And you can take a Sherman that was knocked out and get it back to operational status within a week in many cases.
Uncle BeanbagHOST
Whereas something like a Jagdpanther or a Tiger Tank, you couldn't do that.
Uncle BeanbagHOST
It would either be completely useless or it would take half a year to service and get back into the field.
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Uncle BeanbagHOST
Sarge, The driver again.