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Most Tiger Tanks Were Destroyed By Germany (Not the Allies)

Here's something that will annoy everyone equally. The Tiger tank wasn't killed by Shermans. It wasn't killed by T-34s. It wasn't killed by rocket-firing Typhoons swooping in like avenging angels. Most Tiger tanks were destroyed by their own crews. And the reason why tells you everything — everything — about why Germany lost the war. But it also tells you something else. Something about the American tankers who spent the war being told they were driving death traps. Because they weren't. They were driving the machine that actually won.Let's start with what an American tank crew believed in the summer of 1944.Picture a twenty-two-year-old Sherman commander somewhere in Normandy, July, the hedgerow country. He's been briefed. He's heard the stories filtering back from North Africa, from intelligence reports stamped CONFIDENTIAL, from guys who heard from guys. The German Tiger tank. Impenetrable frontal armor. An 88mm gun that can kill you from a mile away. And the number — the number everyone knows, the number that's become a kind of grim arithmetic of survival: it takes five Shermans to kill one Tiger. Five crews. Five tanks. Four of them are going to die so the fifth can maybe, maybe, get around to the side or the rear and put a round where it counts.