An overview of the Cromwell tank featuring it’s use in video games and in the movies.
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Movies/Games Featured:
Cromwell 1970
Band of Brothers 2001
The Intruder 1953
Company of Heroes (Video Game)
Girls Und Panzer 2015here
Battle of Britain 1969
The Black Tent 1956
Post Scriptum (Video Game)
Combat Mission (Video Game)
War Thunder
A Hill in Korea 1956
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For clarity, the "17-Pounder" used on the Comet was an evolution of the 17-pounder best referred to as the 77mm High Velocity. It fired the same caliber ammunition as the 17-pounder but the ammunition was not interchangeable.
Vade.
Wonder if any Cromwells managed to get the 6 pounder apds
Make the t62 tank in the movies or the t72 tank
One comment, the clip at the start of the shell landing by the half track was from Band of Brothers and was a bazooka rocket, not a tank shell.
Loving the Company of heroes clips!
Hammer film studios are famous for horror movies, but they did make a few war movies too. One of them called "Steel Bayonet", set in Tunisia in 1943, had Cromwell tanks doubling as German panzers and, in this capacity, they did resemble German tanks far more closely than the Centurions that played German armour in another studio's desert war movie, "Tank Force" a.k.a "No Time to Die", made around the same time, the late fifties, and starring Victor Mature. But then, in that movie, Cromwells were playing the British tanks, so it would have made sense to have used something different.
"How’s the work going on that silly, harmless old bomb, eh? Oh, you were all frightened of nothing, you know. " "This line the Major spoke from inside a suit of armour, inside a Cromwell tank."
P.S. To be honest, I DO miss the days when all you had to do was get a few M47s or M48s, either paint them gray or sand yellow, plaster them with black crosses, and call them "Tigers".
The cromwell destroyed in korea is actually the first tank kill of the centurian. Mark Felton has a great video on it.
That jump in the tank must have been so sore on the landing
Let us remember the heroism of Cromwell!
The only things the Cromwell can kill were panzer 4s
The symbol of the Israeli armoured corps – there is an interesting story how the IDF acquired its first 2 Cromwell tanks
0:01–0:06 – I think the cut to the firing Cromwell tank should have been emitted. Would have had a more comedic effect here.
i bought a 1/72 cromwell some days ago
it looks very nice
I just read ‘Warriors for the Working Day’ which is an IWM classic. Worth a read. Really captures the stress of tank warfare.
Great vid. As usual. Blah blah:)
Love the Cromwell film/Cromwell tank transitions, Johnny.
The one weakness was when the tank was hit – the tank commander would find it difficult to escape from the main hatch.
In the Overloon war museum there is such a Cromwell tank that ran into a riegel mine during the tank battle.
Was always curious why they'd name the tank after such a reviled historical figure.
1:53 quite the accomplished actor, the cromwell
Thank Jonny my favurite tank of all the time love it my dream is to use one of them in a fantasy movie
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A tank being faster than a infantry solider ? unbelievable nonsense !!
In the BoB clips, the Cromwells were actually used during this battle, they were from A Sqn The 15th/19th The Kings Royal Hussars, who were the Armoured Recce Regt of the British 11th Armoured Division, attached to the 506th PIR, the Sherman's in the same clips weren't there, I served with the 15/19Hussars for 12 years
I can't believe you actually went back in time to record this magnificent tank
Why do the names of British tanks from WW2 and onwards always begin with the letter C?
With that clip from The Battle of Britain, it made me think of…
"They should train monkeys to fly…"
I may be two days late but I m back with a vengeance for the m16!
At 3:52 is a YouTuber named Bo Time Gaming
Interestingly enough about that Cromwell the Centurion took out: I’m like 90% sure it was the first ever combat kill for the Centurion.
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It was a good tank with relatively decent armour and a wonderful engine resulting in one of the fastest tanks. The factories really dragged their feet and was hampered with the old Liberty engines! The beauty of all this was that already it was urgent to develop a better tank in 1940 and already somewhere the experts was scavenging old Merlins…
A good book to check out is 'Troop leader' by BIll Bellamy. It's a biography of when he was a tank commander of a Cromwell tank in WW2.
Very good video, Johnny. 👍
An excellent analysis of Cromwell. The British approach was the infantry tank slow well armed and armoured for breakthrough and the cruiser tank for exploitation. The first issue was the government binned the tank development organisation, only to restart it late in the 1930’s consequently they were always running to catch up, until Centurion were they dumped all previous doctrine. The issue for Cromwell has with other WW2 British equipment has been the effect of poorly informed declinist historians from the 70 and 80’s. This is now being addressed and debunked by the revisionist historians so Cromwell and Churchill particularly the AVRE Crocodile are being seen has a significant success, than a failure. Indeed British medical statistics identify there is a significant difference between the casualty rates from Cromwell and Sherman. If hit by artillery or anti tank fire an average of 55% of the Cromwell crew would escape unhurt against 33% for Sherman. If injured a greater number of Sherman crews died 46% from their injuries than Cromwell 33%. General Bayerlein’s analysis of Cromwell, the Germans were impressed with its speed low profile and adequate armament, sometimes referred to as the Western T34. The advantage of Cromwell was the great swan battle Normandy breakout to the Dutch border . The Sherman wasn’t fast enough and suffered breakdowns because of the speed of advance. Comet is an enlarged Cromwell has the final development before Centurion where the requirements to travel on British railways was dumped.
It should have been a much better tank bearing the name of Britain's greatest ever commander and statesman
That scene in band of brothers was american nonsense trying to make the Brits look bad as usual
Fonominal video firstly
Secondly it's great to see Girls Und panzer Featuring in these video analysts
Thirdly I wrote a 5k word essay about 3 tanks of wwII one of them was the Cromwell, this video almost perfectly summarised my chapter about the Cromwell ,great video keep up the good work JJ
Imagine all the Girls und panzer clips I could see if a PZ.IV video was made🤩 lol
BO got into this video haha I love it!
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Great info, superb visuals. As always
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Love seeing some Bo time gaming.
2:02 lmao
It was not a reconnaissance tank. It was a medium tank, a battle tank an analogue to the sherman, but harder to get in and out of, more reliable and faster, slightly less armour, although less of a reputation for burning(which may or may not be deserved, the flammability of the sherman tank is quite a contentious subject these days). The role of reconnaissance tank in the allied armies was filled at this stage by the M5 Stuart and chaffee, of which the British actually had a few of by the end of the war(chaffees that is, they had hundreds of stuarts).
It's not that the 75 had a good HE shell, it was more that if you have something going a decent velocity such as the British 6pdr, you tend to need to have more shell wall and less exsplosive payload or else it loses integrity in flight- also known as a bad thing. The old French model 1898 field gun of which the US tank gun was a derivative was never intended to breach the armoured hulls of tanks, as they had not been invented yet and thus its pretty well set up for slinging HE at things.