Equipped with 60,000 lb (27,000 kg) winch and an 18 feet long pivoting A-frame jib installed.
Reading time: 7 minutes Public. Yet to get that close to a German tank made the Sherman vulnerable indeed. The Sherman M4A2 76w: The most common Soviet Sherman, The Sherman M4A3 76W: The tank that would grow into the ultimate Sherman. #41 Gallery I, Mixed High Res Sherman Photos, With Comments. They stopped then only because they had moved too fast and too far and were forced to wait a few days until their supplies could reach them in large enough quantities to send them ahead again. Sources: Armored Thunderbolt by Zaloga, Sherman by Hunnicutt, Combat Lessons, Son of a Sherman by Stansell and Laughlin, M4 Sherman tank at war by Green, Tanks are a Might Fine Thing by Stout, TM9-752, TM9-754, TM9-759, TM9-731B, TM9-731A.
Find out more, Sherman ARV MK I,Recovery vehicle, photographed around Caen in July-August, 1944. To withstand the terrific beating the tank was taking hour after hour, it was necessary for it to have a simple yet tough and efficient engine and mechanical system. A windows (pop-into) of information (full-content of Sensagent) triggered by double-clicking any word on your webpage. As a result, it is not necessary for the new tank to get as close in as the old tank before becoming effective. Once you have the tank, running it is going to be a lot cheaper than a vintage aircraft as well.
The differents between the M2 and M2A1 are the turrets and some modifications. There were even at least six different types of road wheel! He is just raking muck because he knows it sells books. M4 Series Gunner’s position: Where the gunner did his job. The A4 has the honor of being the heaviest and largest standard Sherman. Also, the new Sherman, like the old, had the potent 50-caliber anti-aircraft gun which proved so effective against enemy planes and which played havoc with dug-in Germans. It will also be packed with model specific technical drawings and photos, if the tank had a 76 armed model it will have a subpage. Many tanks were lost in endeavoring to get close in, which was necessary in order for them to strike a telling blow. 8in Howitzer Motor Carriage M43 - self-propelled 8 inch HMC (standardized post-World War II). Any M4A1 HVSS 76 and M4A2 HVSS 76 tanks in Army inventory would have been robbed of their suspensions and turrets so they could be installed on M4A3 large hatch hulls. With a SensagentBox, visitors to your site can access reliable information on over 5 million pages provided by Sensagent.com. Yes, even as a tank-on-tank killer. #61 Storage Ammo and Everything Else: The Army packed a lot of Gear and Tools into the Sherman, along with the Ammo, Guns and Men. In US use they tried to limit it to stateside training duty.
“Death Traps, a poorly written memoir by Belton Y. Cooper promises much, but delivers little. Cooper’s description of a counterattack by the German Panzer Lehr division is totally inaccurate; he states that, “July 11 became one of the most critical in the battle of Normandy. The Final Drives: The Panthers Achilles Heel, the Shermans Gibraltar. They also named the Lee and Stuart, and at some point, the US Army just stuck with the naming scheme. All rights reserved. He also knows that the addition of a few tons of armor will not stop an 88. It has been said, practically speaking, that the only thing that will stop an 88 is “Cease fire.”. It was 30 of these M4A1 76 HVSS tanks that were the last Shermans ever produced. Click the link above for a dedicated page to the M4A2.
All this gave the Sherman an advantage in spotting things outside the tank; they were still blind, just not as blind as most of the tanks they would face. It is in 3 parts and I believe that the upper plate that has the hits on it is cut from the glacis of a Panther tank. You can spend hours reading it and looking over the pictures.
The Marines operated a lot of small hatch and a fairly large number of large hatch M4A2 tanks until the supply of 75mm armed versions dried up in late 1944. Probably. The sheer availability of the classic American M4 Sherman Medium Tank meant that the basic chassis was put to good use to cover other battlefield roles.
You can spend hours on this site learning about minor Sherman details. Cooper even claims that, as the 3rd Armored Division approached the Elbe River in the last days of the war that, “with our division spread out and opposed by three new divisions, our situation was critical.” If anybody’s situation was critical in April 1945, it was Germany’s. It is easy to identify an A4 from the side, there’s a bulge on the engine deck just behind the turret, and a bulge in the belly in the same place, both to house a huge cooling fan. Even during those days, one German tank knocked out for one American tank was a poor score. They were used well into the 1960s and 1970s by some nations, mainly in Africa and Latin America. It would see all the improvements, and be the first hull type to take the HVSS suspension system into combat for the US Army. Still another item often overlooked is that it was necessary for us to carry an adequate basic load of ammunition and gasoline in our tanks, for to replace what we used we had to call upon trucks that had to travel over a long, dangerous supply route. It would not be impossible for a field repair depot to swap a turret, from one knocked out tank, onto the hull of another, making an oddball. The German 88 is more powerful than any American tank gun used during the course of most of the war. Yes, considering all factors, I believe that even the most prejudiced or the one most difficult to convince will nod toward the Sherman. #63 Security On the March: How a WWII Sherman Tank unit prepared for an attack on march. It often cracked on impact, leaving ragged, gaping holes, whereas the holes in our tanks were clean, circular, and easily repairable. It was produced in six factories with 10,968 of all turret types produced from April of 42 to July 45.
It must be mentioned that once again the Germans lost sight of the purpose and function of a tank and thought primarily of destroying other tanks. There was a surplus of M1A1 76mm guns in Europe due to an aborted program rearm 75mm Sherman tanks with the guns. Thus the Sherman was among the best even if you want to believe all the bad things about it; or would you (Sherman haters) really try to have us believe we’d all have been better off building a lot of Crusader tanks and using those instead? Of course, very, very often a few well-placed shots from the tank cannon will be much more effective than the 30-caliber machine guns, and therefore the cannon is used very frequently in offensive action.
His book makes compelling reading. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page.
And check out the added armor on the glacis.
Instead of discussing maintenance operations in detail, Cooper opines about everything from U-Boats, to V-2 rockets, to strategic bombing, to the July 20th Plot. Of all the tanks operating today, that one, in my estimation, is the best there is. Many bridges intact and able to accommodate the lighter American tank would deny passage to the heavy, lumbering Tiger. To build a tank that would stop an 88 shell would be to lose a tank and gain a lumbering steel pillbox with no mobility left. Note the rounded edges of its fully cast upper hull. It must be remembered that the German tank had everything its way. #11 The Radios: The Sherman Tank Had Some Of The Most Advanced Radios In The World At The Time. the monument tank you really want to see is at Rock Island Arsenal. In some cases, the vehicles were converted for use in a variety of other roles from mobile artillery to ambulances. M4 Sherman: First in Name, 4th Into Production. What is the life (discounting its being hit in action) of a Tiger tank? The interiors of their tanks were not nearly as well equipped as ours, and it looked altogether too much maintenance to keep a German tank rolling. Third, if the German tanks were as deadly as Cooper claims, why did the Germans lose 1,500 tanks in Normandy against about 1,700 Allied tanks? It is also a primary source for this post. On another occasion, Cooper claims that his unit received the 60,000th Sherman produced, but official records indicate that only 49,234 of all models were built. A new type, high-velocity, armor-piercing shell was added for the gun and gives it far greater penetrating qualities. It would be produced in three factories with all turret types, 12,596 built in total between June 42 and June of 45. So it must be made clear to anyone comparing the tanks of the two nations that, as I said before, throughout the campaigns the requirements and needs were different.
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