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Well its hard to say for every conceivable circumstance. But, the German 88mm gun with which the Tiger was equipped could easily penetrate the thickest armor on a Sherman at one thousand yards. The original short-barreled Shermans were equipped with a 75mm, low velocity gun, and even "upgunned" Shermans, equipped with a 76mm higher velocity weapon, had no such punch. A Sherman had to try to get within one hundred yards of a Tiger, and even then, had to shoot it in the thin armor of its rear, or catch it going over something so that it was reared up, exposing the thin skin of its bottom, to have any hope of penetrating the Tiger. Otherwise the Sherman's projectiles would bounce harmlessly off the Tiger. This came as quite a shock to American tankers, who had been assured that they had the best tank. The Army had realized what beasts the Tiger and the Panther were, but hoped that surrounding them with swarms of Shermans would be sufficient. The US made 88,000 Shermans; the Germans produced only about 1300 Tigers. There is a documented instance, in one of the British attacks made in an effort to break out of the Normandy beachhead, where an entire British armored division, equipped with Shermans, was held up by a German "tank ace" with a single Tiger, who parked on a crucial crossroad and held it for several days, destroying seventeen Shermans, if memory serves.

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