In fact the US Army has already honoured Pool by naming the tank simulators room in Fort Knox as Pool Hall in July 1993. Yet, I too would like to see a new US tank named after him, because he deserved that honour. However, whoever design and build it must make surre it will be a realiable great tank. I don’t want to see them disgrace Pool’s name like the way they disgrace Sgt. Alvin York’s name with the M-247.
That’s a fact
Sounds like another motivated GI field leader and all-round ballsy tanker. It would take a lot to get me in one of those moving foxholes, though. Don’t get me wrong! I love the M-60 series and the Abrams and the M-48 series, becasue they’ve come thorugh for outfits I served with in a 20-year career, but I’m still a rifleman at heart, and those things just attract way too much negative attention! 
Is there a model of Pool’s “In the Mood” Sherman in the market? I know the 1/35 figure of SSgt Pool is already for sale. Are there decals for his tank on sale?
With a little work you can build Pool’s M4A1 76 from the Italeri kit. Cooie Sewell does a review on how to build one on the AMPS site. As far as decals go, “In The Mood” doesn’t have a set on the market that I know of but a set can be built up using various decal sets from Archer.
This is an 11 year old post but it is wrong and I feel the need to post correct information.
Lafayette G. Pool had 12 Tanks, 246 AFVs/trucks as registered kills
BUT
The man credited as the Western Allies Tank Ace of WW2 was Canadian
Sydney V. Radley-Walters. He had 18 tank kills and an unregistered number of AFV’s/trucks.
Tanks under his command are also thought to have killed German Ace Michael Wittmann.
IMO, only tanks should be qualified as a kill. Jeeps and halftracks can’t defend themselves in most cases and are unarmored. I believe pilots didn’t count planes shot up on the ground as kills, only air-to-air combat.
Just like WWI pilots counted tethered observation baloons as kills (due to the danger of supporting AA located around them) in late WWII there were also ground kills credited to pilots, and for the same reason. But those kills do not count towards their tally of aerial victories and “acedom”. Just as V-1s downed by various methods do not count towards those tallies either.
Now the whole tank “ace” thing is something that is really hard to compare to the air ace concept. Aside from being an invention of the Goebbels propaganda machine, a tank is run and fought by a crew, as opposed to a fighter plane. If the gunner is a poor shot, they loose. If the driver can not drive his vehicle in a tactical manner that enhances survivability, they loose. If the commander is not looking around for threats and spotting them first, they lose. If the loader can not load quickly for rapid follow up shot to insure a kill, they lose. Oh yeah, they all gotta maintain the beast so that it does not break down at a critical moment and they end up toast.
Now the fighter pilot has to fly and fight his machine solo. Yes his ground crew keeps him flying, but all the variables of flying and fighting the plane, mechanical issues aside, are in his control: manuevering, shooting, looking,etc. all fall in his lap.