FURY 125
In open combat we never had a chance. So, like in Fury, we always had to be one
step ahead. It was only because we could call up air strikes and had many more
tanks than the Germans that we eventually won... I thought the film showed
accurately how tough life could be in a tank, but the final scene where the crew
holds out against a battalion of Waffen SS troops was too far- fetched. The Germans
seemed to be used as cannon fodder. In real ity they would have been battle-
hardened and fanatical troops who would have easily taken out an immobile
Sherman tank using Panzerfausts [single- shot anti- tank rocket launchers]. They
[Fury’s crew] also seemed to have an inexhaustible supply of ammunition and fuel.
A Sherman tank only does five miles to the gallon so I think they would have run
out long before the final showdown.”