Write-off.

This is coolbert:

As extracted from a Quora Internet web site question and answer.

"How many M4 Sherman’s [tank] were destroyed on the Western Front during WW2?"

"The M4 Sherman Tank was used by both the British and the Americans on the Western Front, based on the info I could find there were around 7,100 of them that were 'lost' in the Western Front. 2712 were British and around 4300-4400 were American."

Not specified and those figures of "losses" taken in the subjective manner tanks quite often out-of-action often due to mechanical breakdown or battlefield damage brought back to working order relatively quickly. This is my suspicion.

Consider strictly Operation Goodwood British and Canadian tank losses:

"Reynolds wrote that study of the records suggests that the maximum number of tanks lost during Operation Goodwood was 253, most of which were damaged rather than write-offs. Tamelander and Niklas Zetterling wrote that during Goodwood 469 tanks were lost by the armored divisions (including 131 tanks on the 19 July and 68 on the 20 July), but that the majority could be repaired. Trew rejected those figures and wrote that after much investigation, VIII Corps [British] losses amounted to 197 tanks on 18 July, 99 tanks on 19 July and 18 tanks on 20 July, 'for a total of 314, of which 130 were completely destroyed'. . . In 2014 Buckley wrote that 400 British tanks were knocked out and that many were recovered and put back into service, although the morale of some of the crews deteriorated."

A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THOSE TANKS LOST DURING GOODWOOD  BACK IN SERVICE AND IT BEING SO WITHOUT PROPER RECOGNITION.

Montgomery in the aftermath of Goodwood  got a lot of bad press to an extent undeserved? You the devoted reader to the blog decide for yourself.

coolbert.