{"id":46256,"date":"2019-01-18T02:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46256"},"modified":"2018-12-29T16:23:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T21:23:38","slug":"tank-chats-41-sherman-firefly-the-tank-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/18\/tank-chats-41-sherman-firefly-the-tank-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Tank Chats #41 Sherman Firefly | The Tank Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ifxmd-uMU5Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Tank Museum<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 28 Jul 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Tank Chat from David Fletcher on an inspired British modification. As an all-round, general purpose tank the Sherman was one of the best of World War II, but by 1943 it was getting past its prime. An officer at Lulworth Camp, near Bovington, came up with the idea of fitting a better gun, the British 76.2mm, known as the 17 pounder. The new design would be known as the Sherman Firefly.<\/p>\n<p>Support the work of The Tank Museum on Patreon: \u25ba <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/tankmuseum\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/tankmuseum<\/a><br \/>\nOr donate <a href=\"http:\/\/tankmuseum.org\/support-us\/donate\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tankmuseum.org\/support-us\/donate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to The Tank Museum YouTube channel: \u25ba <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UChl-XKVVBAzoEVsnbOfpcqw?sub_confirmation=1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UChl-X&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\nPress the little bell above to enable NOTIFICATIONS so you don\u2019t miss the latest Tank Museum videos.<br \/>\nTwitter: \u25ba <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TankMuseum\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/TankMuseum<\/a><br \/>\nTiger Tank Blog: \u25ba <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tiger-tank.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/blog.tiger-tank.com\/<\/a><br \/>\nTank 100 First World War Centenary Blog: \u25ba <a href=\"http:\/\/tank100.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tank100.com\/<\/a> #tankmuseum #tanks<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tank Museum Published on 28 Jul 2017 A Tank Chat from David Fletcher on an inspired British modification. As an all-round, general purpose tank the Sherman was one of the best of World War II, but by 1943 it was getting past its prime. An officer at Lulworth Camp, near Bovington, came up with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,5,13,230],"tags":[991],"class_list":["post-46256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-military","category-usa","category-ww2","tag-afvs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-c24","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46257,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46256\/revisions\/46257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}