On Sherman Tanks, and Museums.
Around Christmas, The Tank Museum at Bovington released a video about the Sherman tank. I will link to the video below the fold. The video purported to be about the evolution of the Sherman tank. I thought, oh great, this should be good. After all, Bovington has the oldest extant Sherman and a good selection of the various versions of the tank, as well as at least one Grant. The video should be informative. Instead, the presenter, Chris Copson went down a path that no one handling a tour for a museum should, a path that had things in it that were not factual. I have given tours at the little switch tour museum as a volunteer and I had two goals when I did. They were to be as accurate and factual about what I was talking about and provide a level of entertainment. I didn’t always succeed on the latter, but I made an effort where the former was concerned. Whoever wrote the script for the video missed that and went with a story, that while entertaining, was wrong.
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