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Offline Ack-Ack

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« Reply #15 on: April 12, 2007, 06:40:53 PM »
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I think he's confusing the Sherman VC Firefly with the Sherman CG Weber. The Weber has a flamethrower, and is prone to tipping over in high winds, on rough terrain, or when you're drinking too much to be using it.


and when it blew up, you had a nice Weber Grill to BBQ on.


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« Reply #16 on: April 12, 2007, 07:46:15 PM »
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Yeah, the Brits used the Firefly as a flamethrower tank when they took Iwo Jima.

Apparently the Germans were terrified.



You do know that the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, right?  Saw it in a movie once.


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« Reply #17 on: April 12, 2007, 07:49:59 PM »
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I could be wrong, as could the rest of ya.


Well in this case it's only one person in this thread that is incorrect...

Medium Tank M4 (General Sherman)
M4A3R3 - Sherman tank used during Operation Overlord (1944) and in the Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)

M4 Crocodile - four M4 tanks converted by British for US 2nd Armored Division in NW Europe with the same armored fuel trailer as used on Churchill but the fuel line went over the hull.

Sherman Badger - Canada's replacement of its Ram Badger, the Sherman Badger was a turretless M4A2 HVSS Sherman with Wasp IIC flamethrower in place of hull machine gun, developed sometime from 1945 to 1949. The 150 gallons at 250 psi was effective to 125 yards, with elevation of +30 to -10 degrees and traverse of 30 degrees left and 23 degrees right. This inspired the US T68.
 

Tank, Infantry, Mk IV (A22) (Churchill)
Churchill OKE - Churchill II with "Ronson" flamethrower. 3 used at Dieppe in 1942.

Churchill Crocodile - Churchill VII with an armored fuel trailer. The flamethrower replaced the hull machine gun leaving the main armament unaffected. Used after the Normandy landings (1944)

Tank, Infantry, Mk II, Matilda II (A12)
Matilda Frog (25) - 25 Matilda II tanks converted to flame tanks by the Australians in late 1944.

Matilda Murray - Australian improvement over the Frog, produced in 1945.


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« Reply #18 on: April 12, 2007, 07:55:20 PM »
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Yeah, the Brits used the Firefly as a flamethrower tank when they took Iwo Jima.

Apparently the Germans were terrified.


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« Reply #19 on: April 12, 2007, 09:00:54 PM »
Telling Guppy to "look it up" is like going to a museum and saying that they've got a Fw-190 labeled as a P-47.
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« Reply #20 on: April 12, 2007, 09:36:39 PM »
Easy boys; its obvious to us that we have a collective knowlege base to put Wikipedia out of business, but he's only got 30 posts.

The young sprout will learn to be humble, or he will drown.

AA, welcome to the big leagues: But since you are here, these are the ground rules to be taken seriously:

1.   You gotta back up your claims with hard, verifiable fact; and the Military Channel isn't known for labeling **** correctly.

The rest of the rules you'll learn as you go.


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« Reply #21 on: April 12, 2007, 10:24:39 PM »
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the Military Channel isn't known for labeling **** correctly.

The rest of the rules you'll learn as you go.


Wolf


Amen! Ive found myself SCREAMING at the TV more than once on that particular channel...
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« Reply #22 on: April 12, 2007, 11:24:36 PM »
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Flamethrower?

Gonna have to explain that comment.  Don't recall a Firefly having a Flamethrower.



Maybe he means a blinking butt.




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« Reply #23 on: April 13, 2007, 07:02:16 AM »
Get back on topic.  Fireflies did have flamethrowers.  This thread is about tipping over.  Argue elsewhere.
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« Reply #24 on: April 13, 2007, 07:14:38 AM »
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Get back on topic.  Fireflies did have flamethrowers.  This thread is about tipping over.  Argue elsewhere.


ROTFL... give up!.. the firefly never had a flamethrower :lol
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« Reply #25 on: April 13, 2007, 07:50:28 AM »
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Get back on topic.  Fireflies did have flamethrowers.  


They didnt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Firefly
http://www.onwar.com/tanks/uk/data/firefly.htm
http://www.panzerlexikon.de/
http://freespace.virgin.net/shermanic.firefly/home3.htm
http://afvdb.50megs.com/usa/m4sherman.html
http://www.wwiivehicles.com/unitedkingdom/foreign/m4-medium.asp

Or maybe take a look into this book:

British and American Tanks of World War Two: The Complete Illustrated History of British, American and Commonwealth Tanks, 1939-45 by Peter Chamberlain & Chris Ellis.
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« Reply #26 on: April 13, 2007, 08:42:50 AM »
But he saw it on the military channel so it MUST be true. Never mind the fact that they never showed a Firefly with a flame thrower and to the best of my knowledge no firefly's were used in the PTO.

I suppose he thinks ALL Shermans were firefly's.
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« Reply #27 on: April 13, 2007, 09:08:26 AM »
Is the military channel by any chanse related to Discovery Channel?
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« Reply #28 on: April 13, 2007, 09:15:20 AM »
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Is the military channel by any chanse related to Discovery Channel?


Yes. Both are owned by Discovery Communications Inc.
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« Reply #29 on: April 13, 2007, 09:50:25 AM »
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Get back on topic.  Fireflies did have flamethrowers.  


Did Not.....   :furious
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