Childhood trauma infulenced my tank choice...

[fsn]

I was looking at my US Shermans today. Gazing at them lovingly whilst flexing the rapidly healing elbow and wondered why I felt such antipathy to them. I've never liked Shermans. Yeah I know they were produced by the truckload and they were reliable. I also know they were prone to fire and the 75mm was barely adequate. I always felt they were the first disposable mass-produced military hardware, not expected to last long, but hey, we've got thousands more.

But, as I pondered my little tanks huddled in their box, I  had a realisation. My antipathy to the Sherman is not based upon their historical qualities, but due to the fact that they remind me of Daleks. If the Daleks ever built a tank, it had a turret like a Sherman.

As a chilld I spent many an evening hiding behind the sofa as these mechanised monsters roamed the spaceways. They move like tanks, they look like a Dali-esque tank and their top turret is the same as a Sherman.

I feel a Sherman-Dalek hybrid coming on!


By the way, I also feel a Churchill Crocdile looks like a Crocodile, but I'm quite happy with that.

[petercooman]

THE PILLS! BRING THE PILLS!

[get2grips]

This is an appeal on behalf of the FSN foundation.  There are thouands of people just like FSN across the UK and they desperately need your help.

If you can give just £3 a month...or whatever you can afford...we can go on helping them.

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[fsn]

Thank you for your concern.

[get2grips]

 

[Steve J]

 

[HPFlashman]

This site seldom lets me down, when it comes to laughable stuff.

Thanks, fellows...

[sebigboss79]

Wondering if donations in APCs are acccepted....I mean they are the lesser evil compared to tanks...

[get2grips]

No...here at the FSN foundation we advocate complete abstinence.

[fsn]

See! Practically indistinguishable! Same designer on hull and turret!

[ronan]

(...)
All FSN wants is a (...) life like yours...(...)

I don't think so !
     

See! Practically indistinguishable! Same designer on hull and turret!

Could you help me to see which one is a centurion ?

sorry...
 

[sebigboss79]

No...here at the FSN foundation we advocate complete abstinence.

What happens if prohibited items are smuggled in without your knowledge? 

[get2grips]

What happens if prohibited items are smuggled in without your knowledge?  

Sets 'em back months...seriously.  We had this shifty little fellow from the North East get in here once peddling all kinds of pewter filth  

"Shiny shiny" is, I think, the street name he used.  He went by the name of Lion (or something like that) but I reckon he's just the pusher...

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I would have thought the grant/Lee with turret/eye stalk hull mounted main gun/death ray was closer?

[howayman]

Only one crew member to drive, spot, load, fire and communicate. Daleks must have been Italian or French design. Certainly no vorsprungdalektechnic.

[barbarian]

I must confess I've always found the Sherman ugly, and that's what drove me to eastern front.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

4100 served on the Eussian front. Gotta love lend lease, there's no front without a Sherman somewhere.

[barbarian]

Not on my table. 

[Luddite]

See! Practically indistinguishable! Same designer on hull and turret!

Which one's the Dalek?

[Leon]

I can see your point there fsn... Does that mean that Sherman's can levitate up stairs as well?