One Sherman vs 5 Panthers — The Gunner Who Didn’t Miss a Single Shot

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Title : One Sherman vs 5 Panthers — The Gunner Who Didn’t Miss a Single Shot

Summary : On June 14th, 1944, Sergeant Gordon Harris found himself facing the nightmare every Allied tanker feared: five German Panthers advancing across open ground, confident, armored, and nearly invincible to most Shermans. The British 7th Armoured Division had already suffered heavy losses. Standard Shermans were helpless at this range. Only one tank stood between Lingrè and destruction—a single Sherman Firefly under Harris’s command.

Inside the cramped turret, gunner Alec McKillip steadied the 17-pounder—the only Allied gun capable of killing Panthers frontally at distance. In just six minutes, the Firefly engaged in one of the most precise gunnery duels of World War II. Shot after shot, McKillip delivered perfect hits: the lead Panther disabled, a second exploding into a fireball, a flanking tank stopped dead, a fourth turret blown skyward, and the final Panther destroyed in a long-range hull-down duel.

With hedges burning, the barn collapsing around them, and German shells bracketing their position, Harris stayed calm, calling out corrections with quiet precision. When the smoke cleared, five Panthers lay wrecked across the field—zero British losses.

The battle would shape the reputation of the Firefly, proving that the 17-pounder gun—once dismissed as impossible to mount—was the weapon that could finally match German heavy armor. This is the story of the crew who turned a “stopgap conversion” into the most feared Allied tank on the battlefield.



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