Sherman Wrecks in Biville - France

[SyncroStriker]

Which biville is meant here?

[kiwis0uth]

Ronson's, but a lot of the British tanks lit up on the first strike as well. Petrol engines. What did you expect. The Germans had diesel engines I think

[akulaknight]

@kiwis0uth The germans used gasoline (aircraft grade) as well. The major difference is the Germans put their fuel tanks in areas of the tanks that were better protected than the American fuel tanks. The Germans thought about diesel, but they were too heavy and too prone to failure in the 1940's to be used in tanks. The russians did use diesel, and their T-34 and KV tanks suffered worse engine problems than the germans had.

[mullberryfly]

All those boys killed in that war profiteering GM death trap!!!!!!!

The HARD truth.

[TheFirstBloodyNation]

I would love to go into a time-machine next to one of those wrecks. Then you can see those tanks slowly come alive! And in the end you will going to see troops fighting with it.

Thinks like this always go around in my head when I see things like this.

[JoeC4950]

Gotlanning, what the f- does that mean. Explain



[Gotlanning]

They got what they deserved.. Europe would be free if they did not come here and destroy, the impose multiculturalism that made the muslim hordes come here and push us away.

[441voyager]

Ёбаные американцы... такие же фашисты, как и те, которые уничтожили этих Шерманов в сороковые... Только гитлеровцы тогда показали свою сущность, а американцы с тех пор и по настоящее время... Америка-страна без истории... Подлежит ликвидации!

[bob98127]

it looks like it has a plane engine 

[ArmourWorld]

@bob98127 Your kind of right. That Sherman had a C1 Radial engine. Much like an aircraft engine but modified to deliver more torque with a lighter weight :)

[k3v015Mk]

that is really cool. i wish i could go there and see all of the old bunkers and machines left behind from ww2.

[CapnCrossbones]

Those do not look intact....

[smurfsex]

still standing guard 

[wilburhog]

Looks like they're on a gunnery range and were targets.

[poiuyt3251]

@wilburhog with what they went through, they were, and they were. lol

[mumugamer2006]

Guys, when i am rich i'm gonna get these things, restore them and bring them into a museum.

[trucker765]

the first tank was shot to hell, you can see all the armor piercing bullet holes in the hull and whats left of the turret. the second one looked like it got stuck and all of the guns removed. The third one could be restored possibly.

[dunn98632]

May the crews of those tanks rest in heaven for ever. God Bless America.

[Strawberry7Lynn]

They've got radial engines, like an aeroplane!

[turboslag]

@Strawberry7Lynn

They had the radial and also a Chrysler engine, 30 cylinder in 5 banks of 6. The Chrysler was the most powerful.

[thearizona131]

that my find as a very goood find of an M3A2 sherman tank

[inkhearlover45]

The Third One Might Be Worth Restoring...

[sebaz1982]

@inkhearlover45 i meet you tomorrow there @ 9:00 ok? dont forget to bring 2000 people, 20 horses and 2 mammoths.

[GR8TM4N]

@sebaz1982 I think that a crane and a recovery vehicle will do the job nicely ...

[sebaz1982]

@GR8TM4N i think it is really not that easy. manpower, logistics..by the way my friend, just to be sure; i hope ur not offended, cause it was more of a joke, light talk. im not trying to ridicule ur statement to restore them, cause the idea is good, i agree with that. i just think it is not that easy... one may wonder why they havent done this already.. besides that, if you do this tank, guess how many people around europe and other places are going to make the same request for their wrecks..

[GR8TM4N]

@sebaz1982 No, no, no offence at all. It's OK. I guess that if it was of any worth to recover them, they would have done it already. Those who decide those things probably believe that these vehicles are not of any worth to make such a effort.

[sebaz1982]

@GR8TM4N ;-))

[Godv2]

If this was in the UK someone would have nicked them and sold them as scrap metal for a fiver.

[gravylegs1]

@Godv2 In the states, Someone would have clipped them and sold them on E-bay

[Vanyaaynav]

Good work

[Zeroczar]

Quantity over quality.

[profitaj]

sherman is not good tank ^^

[Keeperofkiller]

Damn we read in every kind of movie like that " i would like discover a tank in wild like that" . And the same guy say just after " It's a shame to not restore those tank and put them into a museum".

There are largely enough sherman in museum all around the world .

From an archaeological point of view and from common people it's 10 more exiting to see them where they were destroyed than in line in a museum ...

[nastybeasts]

it's a M4A1 with the cast hull and the 76 mm gun more like.

[ricksq]

I would like to see photos these wrecks sherman photos taked during war and It would be very interesting if we can to know how these tanks was destroyed. Good video people

[tupolevsoundcrash]

@ricksq They arent battle damaged, they are old french army tanks( us overstock was sold all over europe after the war) they stand on a shooting range, also the only reason they are still there. You werent thinking you could still find them in the wild, did ya?

[ricksq]

Ohh thanks tupolev !!  I didnt know, i didnt saw details informing what you said. I imagined this because there are places on the Europe, Afrika and pacific that keep destroyed tanks at the original destruction position (not purposely). Places like Iwo Jima, balaton lake, North Afrika even Russia. Thank you

[MrBob142536]

@ricksq

you spelt africa wrong...

[Tanker4602]

are the shermans still there

[astrialkil]

I wonder why some one would cut up the engine compartment then leave the engine?

[88pie88]

@astrialkil to be used in tractors

[astrialkil]

@88pie88 Are they using them as weights on the front of the tractor or what?

[88pie88]

@astrialkil shermans were built in former tractor factories, the parts of the sherman are extreamly similar to regular tractor engines. most likely that the engines are used for parts to fix up multiple tractors or use the sherman engine to make the tractor stronger/faster.

[astrialkil]

@88pie88 I'm not saying your wrong , there is much i don't know but I heard Shermans used rotary engines like in WW1 air planes. I haven't heard of tractors using that type of engine. I just re watched the vid and those are rotary engines. The engines are still there but in the cut up one the transmission seems to be missing, maybe that is what they were after? The last tank is in such nice shape its a shame no one rebuilds it.

[88pie88]

@astrialkil i coult be wrong, i might be thinking about the stuart or the t-34. but im sure they used the parts. or the coper wire in the transmission could be of vaule, and yes it is a shame, i bet if they used all these shermans, i bet they could fix up 2 or three shermans.

[vhjmvn]

@88pie88 No tractor factory ever built a tank in the USA (unless you would call e.g. Ford a tractor factory because they built tractors, too); you may be thinking of the USSR?

Most M-4s were mass-produced in motor city, Detroit, on a miles-long assembly line in a plant built for this purpose.

[88pie88]

@vhjmvn i did make a mistake, i was thinking of the tractor factories in stalingrad, and tula.

[vhjmvn]

@astrialkil:

Cutting out metal plates is easy and can be done fast; removing a rusted engine is a hell of a job.

[ozfbody]

Why have these heroic vehicles been left to still rot ?? Someone needs to get them into a museum !

[funstuff2006]

@ozfbody

It is sad to see them fade away given that they are in some ways the lasting memorial for men who may have died on that spot, but at the same time I get really annoyed with our modern inability to keep our grubby paws off a things for that very reason. Those tanks sitting there, silently, is a solemn reminder of what went on, and if they can serve to call to mind even the slightest idea of what was happening there so long ago, then it is equally important that they not move.

[cas1029]

@ozfbody i think that if you pass by those wrecks you will think about what happened there so every wreck is some sort of museum themselves

[billy3rdkill0311]

@ozfbody they are graves

[TheGyldenlove]

@billy3rdkill0311 At least some of them just appear to have broken down and been left there.

[billy3rdkill0311]

@TheGyldenlove if they broen down we would repair them onley time we leave are armour is when its a total loss

[AndyWillow1989]

@ozfbody there original resting place is a better museum than any museum you have to pay to see! besides these are too far gone for restoration

[itsmepaul57]

The 'Tommy Cookers'