Category: Medium Tank
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Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf. G/H (Sd.Kfz. 161/2)
Type: Medium TankNation: GermanyPeriod: World War 2Location: Technik Museum Sinsheim, Germany Steel siblings The first batch of the early Panzerkampfwagen IV was delivered to the Wehrmacht until 1938. With approximately 8,500 units built until 1945, it became the most produced German tank of World War 2. Like its companion, the very similar Panzerkampfwagen III, its…
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Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf. L (Sd.Kfz. 141/1)
Type: Medium Tank Nation: Germany Period: World War 2 Location: The Tank Museum, Bovington, UK Anti-tank tank The Panzerkampfwagen III was one of Nazi Germany’s two primary early war medium tanks. First conceived in 1934 with a 3.7 cm anti-tank gun, it was supposed to take on enemy armour while the slightly bigger Panzerkampfwagen IV…
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M4A4 FL-10
Type: Medium Tank Nation: Egypt Period: Cold War Location: National Military Museum, Cairo, Egypt Frankentank The M4A4 FL-10 was a not too creatively named up-armed Sherman version that combined the long M4A4 hull with the FL-10 oscillating turret taken from the AMX-13 light tank. This variant was designed and built in France for the Egyptian…
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Sherman IC Hybrid Firefly
Type: Medium Tank/Cruiser TankNation: United KingdomPeriod: World War 2Location: Klein-Willebroek, Belgium Best of both worlds The “Composite hull” Sherman combined the welded hull of the standard M4 with a rounded M4A1-style cast front. Chrysler came up with this design in 1943, because a large part of the time-consuming welding work on the first generation M4…
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Grizzly I „Robin Hood“
Type: Medium Tank/Cruiser Tank Nation: Canada Period: World War 2 Location: Vrijheidsmuseum, Groesbeek, Netherlands Full metal footprint The Grizzly I cruiser tank was basically a Canadian licence-built M4A1. It is sometimes falsely referred to as the M4A5, but the Americans had actually applied this designation to the Ram II in February 1942. Apart from a…
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M4A4 Sherman „Argyle“
Type: Medium Tank Nation: USA Period: World War 2 Location: Airborne Museum Hartenstein, Oosterbeek, Netherlands From filler to killer The shortage of radial engines for the M4 and M4A1 had led to the production of both the M4A2 with an improvised twin diesel engine as well as the Ford V8-powered M4A3. For the same reason…
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M4A3(75)W Sherman „Barracuda“
Type: Medium Tank Nation: USA Period: World War 2 Location: Bastogne, Belgium Major redesign Following the M4A1 and M4A2, the M4A3 was the third Sherman variant to enter production in June 1942. Rated at 500 hp, its liquid-cooled Ford GAA V8 was the most powerful of all five Sherman engines. Before production was stopped in…
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M4A2 Sherman
Type: Medium Tank Nation: USA Period: World War 2 Location: Montfaucon-d’Argonne, France Necessity is the mother of invention The M4A2 was the first welded hull Sherman that went into production in April 1942 – just two months after the cast hull M4A1. With 8,053 completed units, it was the single most produced Sherman variant. To…
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M4 Sherman „Blood & Guts“
Type: Medium Tank Nation: USA Period: World War 2 Location: Wiltz, Luxembourg Standing tall The M4 was considered the “standard” Sherman, although the M4A1, M4A2 and M4A3 all went into production earlier. The first of 6,748 early “small hatch” M4s left the factories in July 1942. Apart from the welded hull, it was basically identical…