There are also lots of little things that most normal people dont think about but are actually extremely important for a proper fighting machine. For instance, the Sherman had some of the best optics for any tank in WW2, and they only got better as the design got more advanced. So for all of the old myths about how dangerous it was, actual combat stats show it was a killing machine because it almost always got the first shot off due to actually being able to see. Even in Korea, Shermans usually won against T-34's, because as it turns out the T-34 was actually not a great tank (it just fit the Soviet "Brute force them to death with numbers" doctrine).

This is before we get into the data about how for all the "deathtrap" talk, the Sherman was hands down the most survivable tank of the war unless you were in a British-crewed Sherman (British Shermans being responsible for a ton of the myths around it, that didnt carry over to American Shermans).

There are also lots of little things that most normal people dont think about but are actually extremely important for a proper fighting machine. For instance, the Sherman had some of the best optics for any tank in WW2, and they only got better as the design got more advanced. So for all of the old myths about how dangerous it was, actual combat stats show it was a killing machine because it almost always got the first shot off due to actually being able to see. Even in Korea, Shermans usually won against T-34's, because as it turns out the T-34 was actually not a great tank (it just fit the Soviet "Brute force them to death with numbers" doctrine).

This is before we get into the data about how for all the "deathtrap" talk, the Sherman was hands down the most survivable tank of the war unless you were in a British-crewed Sherman.