cromwell 75, or sherman 75.

Cromwell 9' 3 1/2"
Sherman 8' 11 1/2"

Old myth that hangs around.

Metric to Standard conversion issues. Guess I need to not use paper and pencil.

The point is still, though, as Adam visited, is that the apparent height claim is, for the most part, a red herring. There are other posts around here dispelling the myth of the towering Sherman.

 

I picked Sherman, because I was not sure and I live in America. lol

 

With the Detroit disgorging Shermans at the rate it was, why bother with tinkering with a tank of the same tonnage, gun, protection, etc.?

National pride? Pork?

Adding my voice to von Poop's here. All our later tanks from Challenger back through Chieftain, Centurion and Comet are rooted through Cromwell. The Churchill line, though more than useful at the time, led nowhere later.

There was an occasional role in rapid exploitation for which Cromwell was better fitted. Within the NW Europe campaign, we probably could've managed without it in purely military terms, but our post-War economics would've been noticeably worse than they already were.

Regards,
MikB

 

beleive it or not... i have no idea!

 

Hi all

With a name like Cromwell how could it not be better!!

regards

Robert

 

Which tppick. I read that the Sherman brewed up quite easily and that the Cromwell
was totally outclassed by the Panther by the time it appeared on the scene. Decisions, decisions.
David

 

Never really liked the Ronson in its WW2 models, so, not taking into consideration M51´s, Super-Shermans and the like, I´ll go for British steel.

 

Recently from the Tank museum and Al Murray...

 

Hey, the Pub Landlord! Haven't seen him in a while.

 

Why does it have to be either/or? I'd have the Cromwell for recce, with the Sherman as the workhorse. Isn't that how it was in the armored div organization for OVERLORD? If you have both in stock anyway the division of labor makes sense to me.

 

Unless you were 7Th Armoured!

Was the height of the Cromwell really as mentioned upthread? I'm a bit skeptical that something like tank height could be misreported so widely.

 

Lease Lend was not the same as ownership. At the end of the war the Shermans had to go back or be scrapped. Producing tanks in the UK meant that they did not need to be shipped across the Atlantic