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The inability of this gun to threaten German tanks led to several efforts to improve firepower. Most famous of these was the Sherman Firefly, a British variant mounting a much longer and more powerful 17pdr gun. The US refused to fit this gun, as they were planning on upgrading their Shermans with a 90mm gun, but all US Shermans remained fitted with the smaller gun at the war's end.

The inability of this gun to threaten German tanks led to several efforts to improve firepower. Most famous of these was the Sherman Firefly, a British variant mounting a much longer and more powerful 17pdr gun. The US refused to fit this gun, as they were planning on upgrading their Shermans with a 90mm gun, but all US Shermans remained fitted with the smaller gun at the war's end.

Allied air supremacy during the late war allowed much of the work of knocking out the toughest enemy tanks to be performed from the air instead of in head-to-head tank battles.

Allied air supremacy during the late war allowed much of the work of knocking out the toughest enemy tanks to be performed from the air instead of in head-to-head tank battles.

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