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Offline Tyrannis

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new sherman skin possably?
« on: November 28, 2010, 04:50:32 AM »
hey guys, i came across this skin for the sherman a couple months ago while searching for something else, and are wondering some things.

does anyone know the history behind this sherman?

is it a ww2 sherman or israli?

and if it is ww2, can it be added? would be an amazing skin which i would deff choose  :pray

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Re: new sherman skin possably?
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2010, 09:38:27 AM »
The people in the tank don't look american, more like japs? so which makes me think its a captured tank.

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Re: new sherman skin possably?
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2010, 09:40:50 AM »
This could be a Korean war pic too.

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Re: new sherman skin possably?
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2010, 09:41:33 AM »
its not WW2 and those arent japs. the (76W) wasnt used in the pacific. it was built to take on tigers, but that M4A3E8 is from the korean war.
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Re: new sherman skin possably?
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2010, 05:41:30 AM »
hm, anyone have a clue as to what sherman this exackly is? i rly like the paint scheme

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Re: new sherman skin possably?
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2010, 01:21:30 PM »
hm, anyone have a clue as to what sherman this exackly is? i rly like the paint scheme

It's an Easy-Eight (which we don't have) from the Korean War (which we can't have skins from).
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« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2010, 09:24:19 AM »
Addidtional info- thats the 73rd Tank Battalion, much more well known for their tiger-marked M-26 Pershings than their Shermans, but they used both, as well as Chaffees. Some sources say the 89th TB, but they painted their with red devil faces, not tigers.









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« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2010, 11:41:35 AM »
Have seen that one at the Patton museum. Great museum for anyone near Kentucky.
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« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2010, 11:52:40 AM »
the 442nd was a all japense american squad during WWII

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« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2010, 03:39:39 PM »
Have seen that one at the Patton museum. Great museum for anyone near Kentucky.

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Re: new sherman skin possably?
« Reply #10 on: November 30, 2010, 03:52:24 PM »
the 442nd was a all japense american squad during WWII

Which has what to do with this discussion? And it was a Regiment, not a 'squad'.
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Re: new sherman skin possably?
« Reply #11 on: November 30, 2010, 04:46:18 PM »
Which has what to do with this discussion? And it was a Regiment, not a 'squad'.

someone said japs so it was possible for japs to have shermans. just it was are japs and not jap japs

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« Reply #12 on: November 30, 2010, 05:22:08 PM »
the 442nd was a all japense american squad during WWII

Thanks  :D

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Re: new sherman skin possably?
« Reply #14 on: December 01, 2010, 07:14:54 AM »
Have seen that one at the Patton museum. Great museum for anyone near Kentucky.

i went there back in 2006 but dont remember seeing this paintjob on any of the shermans, i was deeply disapointed tho with how much graffiti was spraypainted on these historic tanks by immature kids. some were even stupid enough to write there full names on the side of some of them. i was jobshadowing an apache pilot for a school project