{"id":89827,"date":"2024-10-14T02:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=89827"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:01:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T13:01:58","slug":"quality-v-quantity-panzer-iv-v-m4-sherman-tank-v-tank-normandy-1944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/10\/14\/quality-v-quantity-panzer-iv-v-m4-sherman-tank-v-tank-normandy-1944\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality v Quantity? | Panzer IV v M4 Sherman | Tank V Tank &#8211; Normandy, 1944"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Okk1YksfFX4?si=lNeKkGPYUDxptFFR\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Tank Museum<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished Jun 14, 2024  <\/p>\n<p>Normandy, 1944: in the dense <em>bocage<\/em> countryside, two tanks, the US-built M4 Sherman and the German PzKpfw IV go head-to-head in the fighting around the Allied bridgehead. Both are similar in capabilities but which will prevail? <\/p>\n<p>In this film, Chris Copson compares the armour protection, firepower and mobility of the two designs, and we recount the events of a specific engagement fought at Mouen near Caen on 28th June, 1944.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 | Intro<br \/>\n01:45 | Meet the Tanks<br \/>\n03:08 | Armour<br \/>\n07:37 | Firepower<br \/>\n12:19 | Mobility &#038; Operation<br \/>\n13:29 | Tank Crews<br \/>\n16:37 | Summary<br \/>\n17:15 | Mouen, Normandy, 28 June 1944<br \/>\n23:10 | Conclusion<\/p>\n<p>This video features archive footage courtesy of British Path\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>#tankmuseum<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tank Museum Published Jun 14, 2024 Normandy, 1944: in the dense bocage countryside, two tanks, the US-built M4 Sherman and the German PzKpfw IV go head-to-head in the fighting around the Allied bridgehead. Both are similar in capabilities but which will prevail? In this film, Chris Copson compares the armour protection, firepower and mobility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[4,1117,1118,7,5,13,663,230],"tags":[991,1298,1245],"class_list":["post-89827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-france","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-usa","category-weapons","category-ww2","tag-afvs","tag-museum","tag-normandy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-nmP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89827","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=89827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89828,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89827\/revisions\/89828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}