Kelly's Heroes Oddball Shows off His Tanks

[TheBossMan635]

Oddball can make a great veitnam war character

[jhansenable]

They're not hippies, they're gypsies.

[silentsniperrr]

They've had hippies since the 1600's. look at the salem witch hunts :D

[Srd1126]

any other secret weapons-cause I aint getting my head blown off because you don't habla........sorry mixing movies again.

[misterjake78]

dorokjee, the 17lbr was 76mm in diameter. So, in essence he's correct. :)

Of course the 17lbr was much better than the American 76mm gun.

[dorokjee]

Sutherland clearly says 76 mm. The Sherman Firefly variant had the 17 pounder, one of the most powerful guns in the war. Ironically. the allies preferred to disguise the longer barrel of the Firefly, because the Germans were ordered to (logically) take out the most dangerous tanks first. Great movie, but all of the mods would probably have gotten them killed before meeting Kelly (fake ammo wastes space for real ammo, speakers give away position, long barrel makes you a target). Damn hippies. :)

[FULANODETAL]

@dorokjee in the movie the other 2 shermans tanks were lost.

[bearmassaro]

@dorokjee It's a movie, it's not a documentary...

[Fitzcard]

"This gun is an ordinary 70 millimeter but we add this piece of pipe on it and i guess the krauts think its like uhhh, maybe its a 90 millimeter"

awesome line, considering this is what alot of american tanks did seeing as how in order to knock out an enemy tank they had to be 60 yards away... behind them.

As opposed to the Germans who had no problem opening up US armor at 1500 yards

[208STROKER]

shermans had 76 mm,very thinly armoured , and caught fire easy...they were a sucess only because like the russians...they could mass produce them...damm i love this movie..

[MrSunlander]

@208STROKER don't forget the tactics of running behind the Germans for the "ass-shot" and working with Air Force tank-busters. Also, HEAT was a marvelous edge. Oh, yeah, the stablized gun for shooting more accurately on the run, made those tail shots more possible. Still, Sherman crews paid for it when hit, as you say.

[F4Wildcat]

@Fitzcard

Panther and tiger tank had armor thick enough to be immune to the75MM Sherman

The sides required 100 yards for tiger, and 1500M for panther

The Panzer IV sides where no problem, and its frontal armor could be penetrated at close range, same goes for stug

Panther+tiger killed a sherman from any range. PZIV and stug 1500

[NEMESIS1999]

hahaha oddball couldnt resisst Clint's intense look.

[WunderDoob]

@Fitzcard

basically the Sherman tank thrust was a massed charge, the Germans could pick off quite a few of them, but there was no way they could get all of them before they were surrounded and hit from behind. Kind of like getting attacked by bees.

[Darwinism215]

@WunderDoob like bees that could be easily towed to a repair station and put back into fighting condition in the same day.

[WunderDoob]

@Darwinism215

That would depend where it was hit. An 88mm would punch a hole right through the front of a Sherman and kill everyone inside of it.

[TheGarand01]

@WunderDoob Everyone inside being killed wasn't a problem for American WWII tank doctrine, weld up the holes, scrape the old crew off the interior, a new paint job and a new crew, problem solved. When a shell blows the tank in half, now you have a problem.

[LagniappesGuy]

@TheGarand01 Wrong. When hit by a high-velocity 88 or similar round, more often than not, the Sherman would catch fire due to the gasoline and ammunition inside. Once that happened, the hull was scrap metal because it destroyed the temper of the armor for all time.

[eldospinks]

WOOF WOOF!

[vulcanxl444]

this donald sulathen is so so so awesome!

i wish i am like him.

allways with the negative waves lol

[absjaris]

Donald has his style.

Thats a hippie as a tank commander, baby. Yeah!!!!!!