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Today, let Lighter USA help you to put a piece of history in your pocket.ДЄnd appears in several testimonies, books and documentaries, even in the page of a ronson enthusiast club Built for everyday use, and at an everyday price, the butane refillable Ronson jetlite and torch cigar lighters are a classic piece of solid and reliable American technology that guarantee winning any war on either smoking needs or budgets. British tank crews therefore dubbed it вЂњthe RonsonвЂќ: after RonsonвЂ™s own advertising slogan for its lighter, вЂњLights first every time.вЂќ And, made by the Zippo Manfacturing Company, thatвЂ™s still exactly what every Ronson lighter does. Although in every way a war-winning piece of solid and reliable American technology, the Sherman was prone to burning up when hit. But how many famous vehicles have been named after a lighter? Perhaps only one: the World War II Sherman M4 battle tank. Bugatti, Lotus, Porsche, and Tonino Lamborghini have all lent their famous brand names and designs to lighters. There are, of course, many lighters that take their names from famous vehicle manufacturers. The Ronson company itself claim that was their slogan More than that, we do not know if there are complete records of the ronson advertisements on the internet or the use of radio or cinema advertisements. Honestly you never used a nickname based on something ofВ your childhood? well I am not an expert on ronson advertisements, but a 5 minute search on google show an advertisement with the slogan in question. You claim that there was no evidence of the ronson slogan or a close variation in the pre war years. The oral history is an important part of the historic sources and can not be dismissed just because is inconvenient for your bias, one testimony with the nickname is just anecdotal, but several testimonies with the same details can hardly be dismissed without a base. now part of the users argue that even if a considerable number of veterans claim the nickname for the sherman tankВ was ronson this is because somehow is a 'false' memory implanted by postwar fabrications of 'bad historians'. (Again we can't really prove that no soldier ever called a Sherman a Ronson, but that's really beside the point).ДЄnd honestly if you search there are a lot of testimonies with the nickname.

The verdict is that if it was a nickname, it certainly wasn't common.

#VINTAGE CLEAR TANK RONSON LIGHTER FREE#

Now were fires in Shermans an issue? Yes, early on they were,В Feel free to read about it here, as our tame Tank Historian (and my boss) weighed in on the matter: The subsequent forum conversation (which is accessible through Bob on that article) extensively delves into trying to find evidence of the 'Ronson' nickname among US Army Tankers. While I've found reports complaining that the tank caught fire when it, not one says anything about 'The problem is to the point where my crews have started calling them 'Ronsons'.' Heck, I've personally poured over thousands of pages of US Army documents specifically relating armor. The question is was it a nickname during the war.В So far, no one has found record of that being a nickname applied by soldier to the Medium Tank M4 during World War II. There certainly were soldiers who called them Ronson's post-war, again, no one is arguing that. While it's certainly possible that they could have remembered it, it's also not very likely.Дoes this mean that no soldier or tanker ever called their tank a 'Ronson'? No, but the lack of period sources, and the actual lack of the slogan attributed to the nickname castsВ the 'fact' that Sherman tanks were called Ronsons during WW2 into doubt. For your average US Army soldier in 1941 (aged say 18-20) they would have been very young and for soldiers that enlisted/were drafted later in the war, they could very well have been even younger. The closest approximation was from fifteen years before the M4В was a thing that even existed. The argument is that the slogan 'Lights up First time every time' never existed, and based on everyone's research here, no one has found that slogan being used ever. They quite obviously did, and no one is arguing that. Chepicoro, the argument isn't that Ronson made lighters for the US Army.

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