US Sherman Tank

[Marek_Tucan]

Depends on which Sherman and when. Early Shermans had thin armor, bit worse than contemporary Panzer II and IV, but better gun. Later on, Shermans got armor and survivability improvement while Panzer IV got long 75mm so the advantages and disadvantages turned. Yet later on Sherman got 76 or 17pdr and in that configuration had the upper hand over any PzIV. Tigers and Panthers are, of course, another matter.
In fact the devedlopment of Sherman closely resembles T-34 series, only difference being that early Shermans had decent turret front and relatively weak front hull and T-34-76 got it the other way around.