The start of the Hayfield Battle in Fury. Ours was called Beverley and her name was written on the turret. We didn’t write the name of our tank on the barrel like they did in Fury or plaster the inside with photographs but we were just as proud of our tank.

We fought along side the Americans in their Sherman tanks and I found them to be very brave. It took us a while to get along but then I trusted them implicitly with my life. I was in the Essex Yeomanry, a territorial regiment. But they were better disciplined than those in Fury.

Much of the movie tracks the evolving relationship between Wardaddy and Norman “Cobb” Ellison (Logan Lerman), a fresh recruit shocked by the reality of war.Bill was also the youngest in his tank and had a very close relationship with his crew. Set over 24 hours in April 1945, Fury follows the fortunes of a Sherman tank commander called Don “Wardaddy” Collier ( Brad Pitt) and his crew as they find themselves behind enemy lines, outgunned and outnumbered, in a desperate last pitched battle to the death.

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