Tag: sherman tank
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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…
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M4A1 Sherman „Michael“
Type: Medium Tank Nation: USA Period: World War 2 Location: The Tank Museum, Bovington, UK Combined effort Like its predecessor, the M3 Lee/Grant, the M4 Sherman was built in a wide variety of versions. This was done to take full advantage of the production capabilities of the vast American automotive industry: No less than eleven…
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M4A2(76)W HVSS „Fury“
Type: Medium Tank Nation: USA Period: World War 2 Location: The Tank Museum, Bovington, UK The M4 Sherman’s hull had been designed to take a variety of different engine types so that the tank could be produced in enormous numbers – almost 50,000. Due to a shortage of Continental-Wright aircraft radial engines which were powering…
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M4 Sherman “Ginsling”
Type: Medium Tank Nation: USA Period: World War 2 Location: Wibrin, Belgium The sleeping giant At the beginning of World War 2 the US Armys’ tank force was virtually nonexistent. Even Poland possessed more tanks when they were attacked by Nazi Germany in September 1939. The Great Depression and long years of isolationism had drastically…