How GE Engineers Cracked The Secret To Destroying Panzer Armor 106,829 views May 4, 2026 #ShermanTank #ThirdReich #TungstenCarbide July 1944. Normandy. American Sherman tanks burning by the column. The 3rd Armored Division landed in France with 232 tanks. By war's end — 648 destroyed in combat. A 580% loss rate. The metal that could have killed German Panthers from the front — invented inside General Electric in 1928. Locked in a vault by an American corporation for sixteen years. Sold under license to Krupp. This is not a story about Sherman versus Panther. This is a forensic audit of how an American company priced its own soldiers out of the war — and how a small group of GE engineers eventually answered for it. 📊 Inside this documentary: - Why a $6.50/lb metal was sold for $453/lb — and stayed there for 16 years - How an American light bulb company shared royalty data with Hitler's tank-builder - Why Eisenhower learned only in July 1944 that his "wonder gun" couldn't kill a Panther - How the Wolfram Crisis of 1944 strangled the Wehrmacht's anti-tank rounds - Why Sherman crews got only ONE armor-piercing round per month -What Carboloy's president told a Senate committee four months after Pearl Harbor - How a 21-year-old gunner ended a 16-year-old corporate question in front of Cologne Cathedral - Why the 1947 antitrust trial had only one journalist in the room 📚 Sources: Senate Patents Committee hearings (April 1942), Truman Committee testimony of Thurman Arnold, U.S. v. General Electric Company & Friedrich Krupp Aktiengesellschaft (1947 trial records), Belton Cooper "Death Traps," Adam Makos "Spearhead," Isigny tests reports (August 1944), U.S. Army Ordnance Department records, Michael Straight in The New Republic (April 1942) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrnF5HQ70y4