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Now, this is going to be a recreation of my most favorite scene from the movie, Fury, the battle with the Tiger tank. It's about an American tank crew as they, along with the rest of the Allied armies, advance through Germany during 1945.
Now the German Tiger tank was a fearsome weapon that struck terror into the hearts of the Allied soldiers, it had heavy armor that was near impenetrable and had a deadly 88m main gun that could blow apart any weaker tank with one shot. The Americans had the Sherman tank, with much lighter armor and a 75mm main gun (Late in the war, new Shermans had the much better 76mm main gun).
It was often said that it took four Shermans to defeat one Tiger and only one Sherman was expected to survive the encounter. However, what the Allies lacked in firepower and armor, they made up for it in numbers, the Germans only managed to produce about 1,300 Tigers, while the Americans managed to produce nearly 50,000 Shermans. (Keep in mind that the Tiger was not the only tank the Germans made and the Sherman was not the only tank for the Allies)
Fury vs. Tiger
The year was 1945 and the Second World War was nearing its end as the German armies had been pushed back to their homeland, getting squeezed from two sides, the Americans and British from the west and the Soviets from the east. However Hitler still wouldn't give up and ordered the German army and people to fight and never surrender. As the American army advances into Germany, the heart of the enemy, they encounter the most fanatic resistance from the Germans…
Moving through the German countryside, four American Sherman tanks were moving along a road, all peaceful and quiet. The tank crews enjoying the peace as they relaxed, not expecting the Germans to attack as they drove on. And all of a sudden that changed…
The whistle of a shell traveling through the air could be heard before it hit the last Sherman tank in the column, the Sherman exploding as the rest of the tank crews became alert. Sergeant Blu, in the lead tank standing up through the hatch spun around as he saw the last tank in flames, he quickly shouted orders to the rest of the crews.
"F***!" Blu shouted through the radio. "Reverse hard left! Hard left! Reverse!"
"F***!" Alex, Blu's assistant driver commented, as he closed his hatch and got back in his seat.
"Back up, back up, back up! Hard left!" Blu continued shouting as he tried to make sense of what just happened.
The three remaining Shermans backed up as the other tank commanders shouted numerous orders to their crews.
"What the f*** was it?" Pedro, another Blu's crew, asked as he looked through his periscope while Nico, another of the crew, just woke up from his nap.
"That was an 88. It's a goddamn tank." Blu identified the target through the radio to his crew. "Where the f*** is it?" Blu cursed as another German round came out and struck the ground between two of the tanks, dirt flying up and hitting Blu.
"Tank! 12o'clock, 800 yards!" Felipe, the commander of the tank besides Blu shouted.
"I see it! It's a goddamn Tiger!" Blu shouted as he also saw the Tiger clearly now. "Put some f***ing smoke in his face!" Blu ordered the crews.
"Let's go Nico!" Pedro shouted to his friend. "Smoke up Nico!"
"Clear!" Nico shouted, signaling Pedro that he can fire now.
"On the way!" Pedro shouted as he fired the loaded round.
As the smoke rounds buried the Tiger, the tank commanders were mixed on what to do.
"We have to get to the crossroads." Roberto, the commander of the third tank advised. "We got to get past them."
"Blu, let's get the f*** of here! Let's go!" Felipe also agreed.
"Unless he drowns himself in a s***-filled ditch, he's our problem." Blu told the other commanders, saying they needed to stay and destroy this Tiger. "Hit that son of a b****!"
"Almost up!" Nico shouted as he loaded another round into the gun.
"Light the bastard!" Blu ordered his crew as they kept firing.
"Clear!" Nico shouted.
"On the way!" Pedro shouted in reply as the tank's gun fired again.
"Shoot that f***er!" Felipe shouted into the radio.
"Fire when ready!" Roberto shouted as well as more smoke rounds were threw into the Tiger.
"Stop! Stop! Stop!" Felipe shouted to his driver as they were about to run into a forest.
All the Sherman tanks stopped, as the commanders looked at the smoke cloud they created, inside of which was the German Tiger tank.
"Driver, make ready." The voice of the German tank commander, who was a white cockatoo, ordered. "Load anti-tank."
Back with the Americans, Blu gave a dreadful order…
"All right, all tanks, move froward!" Blu shouted.
"F***!" Rafael, the driver of Blu's tank commented as he pushed the drive gear froward.
"Roberto, right flank!" Blu ordered.
"Right stick." Roberto said to the radio to his crew.
" Felipe, left with me, stay abreast." Blu told Felipe.
"Let's go right at them, let's go right at them!" Felipe shouted to his crew as Blu finished his orders to his own.
"Rafael, left flank, let's bum-rush this c***sucker!"
While the American tanks rolled up and picked up speed, the Tiger also started coming froward as the German commander gave out his own orders.
"New target, tank on the left." The German commander told his crew. "10 o'clock, 700 meters."
"He's coming out." Blu said as the Tiger then fired…
"Fire." The German commander ordered and another 88mm round came out, whistling in the air but missing, it was still scary enough to spook Alex, who has never seen such firepower.
"Loader, AP, AP!" Blu ordered Nico as he loaded an AP round into the gun.
"Clear!" Nico shouted.
"Hit 'em!" Blu shouted.
"On the way!" Pedro shouted as he fired the loaded round, which hit the dirt in front of the Tiger and flew up into the air.
"All right, pump him! Pump him!" Felipe shouted to his crew to fire.
The other Sherman tanks fired, scoring direct hits on the Tiger's front, but instead of penetrating, the rounds bounced off the Tiger like they were paper balls.
"What do you want, Top!" Nico shouted to Blu.
"Loader, AP, AP, smash him." Blu's voice sounded through the radio as Alex kept looking at the Tiger, seeing how ineffective the hits were.
"AP, 500 yards, fire!" Roberto shouted to his crew as they loaded and fired another round, which hit the dirt again besides the Tiger.
"Elevate, 600 meters." The German commander ordered.
"Again!" Blu shouted as the Tiger was coming closer and closer.
"F***, Nico, put it in, now." Pedro shouted to his friend.
"Clear!" Nico shouted.
"On the way!" Pedro shouted in reply as yet another round fired and again the round bounced off the Tiger's frontal armor.
The Tiger than fired its own round which connected, which hit Roberto and instantly disintegrated him into nothing.
"God!" Felipe shouted as he saw Roberto turn to nothing.
"God damn it!" Blu also commented.
"F***!" Rafael commented from inside his tank.
"Hit 'em!" Blu ordered.
"Clear!" Nico shouted again as he loaded a round.
"On the way!" Pedro replied as he fired, the round again hitting dirt as the Tiger still roared froward.
"Same target fire!" The German commander ordered.
And an 88mm shell went straight through the frontal armor of Roberto's tank, sparks flying as flames consumed the inside, killing the entire crew.
"They got Roberto!" Felipe shouted. "God damn!" Felipe cursed as Roberto's tank came to a stop as it kept burning.
"It's a f***ing beast." Rafael commented as he looked at the Tiger, unscathed, through the periscope.
Rafael, flank left! Left!" Blu ordered his driver, Rafael putting the drive stick to the left.
"Felipe, cross him. Flank right! Flank right!" Blu ordered Felipe.
"Copy! Right stick! Right stick!" Felipe replied.
Both Shermans separated and made for the Tiger's sides, to try for a flank shot.
"Felipe, he's lining up!" Blu shouted to Felipe, seeing the Tiger target him.
"Fire!" Felipe shouted to his crew as the Sherman fired another round and it bounced off the Tiger's turret.
"Target 11 o'clock." The German commander ordered as the Tiger's gun swung to face Felipe.
"Shoot the son of a bitch!" Blu ordered his crew. "He's lining up on Felipe!"
Blu's crew began to turn the turret to face at the Tiger, Blu getting impatient.
"God damn it, I said fire!" Blu shouted.
"Fire!" The German commander shouted as the Tiger fired another round which hit Felipe's tank, the Sherman bursting in flames as the turret was blown clear off.
"God damn it." Blu commented as he looked at Felipe's destroyed tank.
"F***!" Pedro cursed, Alex looking at the Tiger with eyes of disbelief as Blu told his crew the reality of the situation.
"Felipe gone. We're all that's left." Blu told his crew. "It's up to us now."
"Driver halt!" The German commander ordered as the Tiger spotted.
"Rafael, get around him. Put us on his backside." Blu ordered. "If we get behind him, we can kill him. Go! Go! Go!" Blu shouted as the Sherman drove froward as fast as it could.
"Reverse reverse!" The German commander ordered his crew, the Tiger backing up while firing its hull mounted MG-42. "Don't let him behind us!"
"Faster Rafael!" Blu shouted as he wanted to outrun the Tiger. "God damn it!" Blu cursed as the Tiger's machine gun bullets were flying above his head.
"Froward." The German commander than changing his order, seeing that the Sherman was faster than him.
Alex wanting a bit of his own action, began firing the hull mounted .30 caliber machine gun, the bullet bouncing off the Tiger of course as the Tiger fired another round.
"Target 2 o'clock!" The German commander shouted as another 88mm shell fired and hit the Sherman's rear, blowing off armor plating.
"God damn it!" Blu cursed as sparks flew above his head.
"F***!" Rafael agreed as Alex shouted to the toucan.
"What was that?" Alex shouted.
"We got hit!" Rafael shouted back.
"We lost power traverse." Nico reported. "Switching to manual."
"Pedro, hit him!" Blu ordered, not giving in.
"On the way!" Pedro shouted back as another round fired, again bouncing off the thick Tiger's armor
"Coming around! He's coming around!" Blu shouted as he watched the Tiger. "Rafael, you got to outrun that gun!"
"Oh, I got it! I got it!" Rafael shouted back as he was trying to go fast as he could.
"Fire!" The German commander ordered and another round hit the front of the Sherman, which luckily didn't penetrate, but it still shook up the tank.
"Rafael, put in in third. Right stick!" Blu ordered.
"Pedro, put it up his a**, where the armor's thin." Blu advised as the targeting sight of the Sherman came to the Tiger's engine block.
"I know where to f***ing hit him!" Pedro shouted back as he kept sight of the Tiger's weak spot.
Pedro, you're clear!" Nico shouted to his friend.
"On the way!" Pedro shouted back as he fired, the round missing and sailing past the Tiger.
"S***!" Rafael cursed as he saw the round miss.
"God damn it, I said in the a**!" Blu shouted to Pedro.
"We're moving too fast!" Pedro shouted back. "It's not that f***ing easy!"
"Come on Pedro, stay on him!" Nico shouted to his friend.
Blu kept calm as he told his crew new orders.
"Rafael, when I say back up, you back up. Left stick." Blu ordered as Rafael listened.
"All right, all right." Rafael replied as Blu gave his next orders.
"Pedro, stand by. I'll call the shot." Blu told Pedro.
"Roger! Roger!" Pedro shouted back.
"Rafael, now! Reverse! Reverse! Left Stick!" Blu shouted as Rafael put the drive stick back and the tank moved backward.
"Pedro, steady. Steady." Blu said as Pedro waited for the order to fire.
"Shoot the bastard!" The German commander shouted to his own crew.
"Come on Pedro." Rafael shouted.
"Come on, f***ing shoot him!" Alex also shouted, But Blu still didn't give the order.
"Steady." Blu only said as the crew became extremely nervous. "Now!"
"On the way!" Pedro shouted and fired.
The Sherman fired and hit the engine of the Tiger, which burst into flames as the Tiger was just about to shoot another round.
"F***!" Nico, one more! One more, Nico!" Pedro shouted to his friend to load another round.
"Clear!" Nico shouted!"
"Again!" Blu shouted.
"On the way!" Pedro shouted as another round fired and and put the Tiger out of action as the Tiger's engine stopped roaring.
"Tank destroyed." Pedro reported.
"Rafael, halt." Blu ordered as the crew could finally relax.
"Jesus Christ." Nico commented as he put his wing over his face.
And finally, after three Shermans and one Tiger destroyed, the battle was over as all that was left was Blu and his crew with their lone Sherman tank.
And done!
So how did you guys like this one?