EVERYBODY suffered terrible casualties during the war. Statistically speaking, tank crews had one of the lowest mortality rates of anything else in the war that

EVERYBODY suffered terrible casualties during the war. Statistically speaking, tank crews had one of the lowest mortality rates of anything else in the war that also was in battle. Also, all tank crews were not happy to see any other tank. Germans hated seeing Allied tanks just as must as we hated seeing Axis tanks. 70% of ALL engagements were won solely on who got the first shot off. The Germans had Tiger I and Tiger II tanks, but the reality is that they didn't make very many of them. The vast majority of the tanks the USA went up against were Panzer III's and Stugs...of which any variant of the M4 was more than a match for. The so called poor performance of the Allied tanks was a complete myth. The M4 was a giant success and more than filled its mission. Further, the M4 was so good that it remained in production for more than 40 years after WWII and was used very effectively by Israel during the 6-day war which occurred 22 years after WWII.