more than 50 000 shermans were buildt during ww2
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Conversion to flail tank was carried out by Curran Brothers of Cardiff, Milners Safe Company, TC Jones and Company, J Hibberts Ltd. A total of 300 sherman based flails were built from oct 1943 to march 1944.
32 british tanks were lost during world war 2
Armor & Gun=Tank Only Armor=Armored Personnel Carrier Only Gun=Self Propelled Gun Nearly (close to & counting license built copies by other nations) 100,000 T54/T55 medium tanks have been built. Approximately 50,000 M4's & 50,000 T34's were built (and many still exist today in foreign armies). Discounting the thousands of M60's, T62's, T64's, T72's, T'80's, Centurions, Pattons, Leopards, Abrams, there are probably 1/2 million tanks existing in the world...operational and non-operational, in museums and in the field.
In World War I, tanks were first used. The were top secret but very large. To get the tanks to the battle field unnoticed, they were put into crates labeled "water tanks". They were nicknamed "Water Tanks" but the name was shortened over time to "Tanks".
Tanks were just used as back ups. Not like todays tanks that are used in the front to push through the lines. Tanks had many flaws still since they were just introduced by Britain in the war.