The Sherman Tank Site: The Place For All Things Sherman Tank. There were complaints about the optical quality on these scopes since the clarity wasn’t optimal. The Army came up with another new periscope sight system called the M10. They were just looking ahead, to keep the Sherman as good a combat weapon as possible, and to stay ahead in the arms race. This was used on the 105mm armed Shermans. #43 Gallery II: More Random High Resolution Sherman Photos with Comments. #67 The RAM: The Shermans awkward Canadian Cousin. I only cover these details in a very general way, I could never do it as well as the book or site. Contrary to some claims, it was pretty rare for US 90mm AA guns to be used in the direct fire role. Most had the M3 75mm gun, or the M1A1 76mm gun, but many were also equipped with the British 17 pounder, the M3 90mm, 3 inch AT gun and the M2/M4 105mm howitzer. The Sherman M4A2 76w: The most common Soviet Sherman, The Sherman M4A3 76W: The tank that would grow into the ultimate Sherman. It was too big to move around easily by hand, hard to hide, and didn’t have great pen to work well as a fixed gun. 90 mm Gun Motor Carriage M36B2: 90 mm gun turret on 3-inch Gun Motor Carriage M10 hull. #39 The LST or Landing Ship Tank, a Ship That Could Land Tanks. I have not seen this one mentioned anywhere but Hunnicutt’s Sherman book. The gun overhung the front of the Sherman a lot so the Army decided to shorten it over a foot. The M3 Lee Medium Tank Page: All on one page, because Menu space is at a Premium. There are detailed instructions for setting it up in TM 9-748. The M3 75mm gets a lot of flak thrown at it by ignorant people who think it was a low velocity gun that could not penetrate armor. Since the gun was not overly hot, it didn’t wear barrels out fast, so it could still be used in artillery role. The M3 90MM gun was not mounted on any Shermans, save for the pair of test tanks when they mounted a T26 turret on an M4. #33 The Sherman Of The Future: Advanced Sherman UpGrades That Almost Made It Into Production. #48 Jungle Tanking: The Sherman Saw Combat In Almost All Terrain, Including The Steaming Jungles Of The Pacific. The prototype M6 Sherman used its own unique sight built into the sight rotor on the top of the turret, this was only used on a small number of production Shermans tanks. #24 Silly Myths and Fun Facts About the Sherman and Lee: The Same Old Falsehoods can be Combated by Facts, #25 The Conclusions: Was The Sherman Good Enough? What set them apart was there superior optical quality. ↑. If you haven’t noticed, I have a very large selection of technical manuals and field manuals on my website, all available for download, for free. The turret lacked power traverse. So yes, I know the site would be better with a list of sources, and this is going to be that post for now. As far as I can tell they saw use only in Europe with the US Army, but the French used them in Indo-China (Vietnam). This was an M4 fitted with a Pershing type 90mm gun turret. Suspensions and Tracks: What makes for a smooth and comfortable ride, # 15 Turrets: They Are The Combat Power Of The Tank. Between these two sources, you can answer almost any question about a production detail on a Sherman you may have, and the nice thing about the SMW is it’s always being updated. The M3 90mm Gun: The Most Powerful AT Gun the US used During the War. This scope only had a 3x magnification, with a 21 degree, 30 minutes FOV, and was used in 105 tank applications later in the war. No such thing as excessively powerful anti-tank gun. Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more Sherman information! 105 tanks carried 66 rounds of main gun ammo, in dry ammo racks. Well according to what've I've read some commanders did want a 90mm fitted onto the Sherman, but Mcnair refused since he was determined to maintain the Tank Destroyer doctrine (aka TDs took on the enemy's tanks while the tanks themselves took on the infantry). #30 Sherman Model Specifications: Data, and Lots of It. #64 Sherman Fire Control: How the Gun Was Aimed, not Putting Out Fires! Pictures courtesy of Geoff Walden: Geoff Walden took pictures of several Sherman-type vehicles in the Iraqi military … After just over two years in operation,  this site has grown past 350,000 words, with a huge number of Sherman photos and drawings, many of the drawings pretty rare. Once they started firing the whole crew would help feed the gun, and if they were doing it as a common thing they might even have large amounts of ammo unboxed outside the tank, where the driver and co-driver could feed them to the commander who then fed them to the loader. Sherman tanks equipped with the 105 often found themselves pooled with the others from the three companies of a battalion, with the two from the battalion HQ, so the Tank Battalion could have their own mini 105 battery on call. Closer examination of two stills provided by Dusan Vuskovic Berenguer from Chile showed the Sherman is in fact a M36 90 mm Gun Motor Carriage. The M1 series of guns were also stabilized when installed in the Sherman, but it was the same system used with the 75mm gun, offering limited advantages. It was a 3X scope with a 12 degree 19-minute FOV. Also note the latest post on the Ram tank, The Ram: The Shermans awkward Canadian Cousin. Armor: Yeah, the Sherman had it, and it was better than the German armor of comparable weight. The M10 and M10A1 had all the gear aboard to be used at artillery. The 3inch AT gun started out life as a AA gun. All the guns the Sherman tank used are covered, and more are coming. M4 Series Loader’s Position: Where the loader loaded from. But the mount and linkage still remained an issue. #20 How The Sherman Compared To Its Contemporaries:  Well, it did very well! Seventy-two (72) rounds of ammunition can be stowed in the Medium Tank M4 in the same manner … The Sherman M4A4 Medium Tank: Proof Americans can make even crazy motors reliable. #38 The Shermans Flaws:  What Was Wrong With The Tank, and Stayed Wrong. The 90mm gun was produced on a Sherman chassis in the form of the M36 Jackson tank destroyer. Gun’s produced after that had the threads and a protective cap over them so a brake could be installed later. I have links to many of his very interesting posts in the links section. The 76 mm was developed as a lighter gun than the "3 inch". [...] The experimental vehicle was fitted with the early vertical suspension and the 16-9/16 inch wide track." Anyway, while a wehraboo, I collected some of the premium good source books on German tanks. Often this tank’s turret was fitted to otherwise stock M4A3 hulls due to a shortage of M10 hulls. This was an M4 fitted with a Pershing type 90mm gun turret. A few TD battalions spent almost as much time as artillery as they did in their TD role. Chile bought 65 of these tanks, who in turn, requested that they be modified once more. The 90 mm gun M1/M2/M3 was an American heavy anti-aircraft and anti-tank gun, playing a role similar to the German 8.8cm Flak 18. Post #70: Report on the New Weapons Board. The only site was incorporated into the gunner’s periscope, and it wasn’t magnified. M4 Series Commander’s Position: Where the Commander did his work. The US Army preferred the 90mm over the 17 pounder for various reasons, the biggest being it didn’t have scary flashback out of the breach on firing, making it seem like a somewhat shoddy design. General Devers cabled from London a request for production of the T26E1. The Tank Killers, Steel Victory, and the Infantry’s Armor, by Harry Yeide, These books are another big source they are really great books covering the use of Tank Destroyers and the Separate Tank Battalions. #20 How The Sherman Compared To Its Contemporaries:  Well, it did very well! It was a new gun with a breech similar to that of the 75 mm M3 Gun. The motors: Four motors made it into production? Much of the later large hatch hull tanks were produced with a larger turret to accommodate the M1 family of 76mm guns. #40 The Small Arms Of The US Army Tanker: What They Were Issued And What They Actually Carried. Wet Shermans had an armored 6 round ready box mounted in the turret, the rest of the ammo was in armored boxes under the floor. This sight was also used on the early production 105 tanks and most 75mm Shermans. M4 Series Driver and Co Driver’s position page. The “Siegfried Line” excuse was also used to build the T28/T95. The later better periscopes like the M4, M4A1 and M8 series would all fit in the old mount though. First and foremost, most of the minutia details come from reading the Sherman Minutia Website a lot and looking through the Son of a Sherman book. These TD battalions had little luck, and some really got clobbered in the Battle of the bulge. This man, almost as much as R.P. Post war, ammunition would be further improved and there would be no shortage of HVAP ammo in Korea, so the US Army would soldier on with the gun, in its final improved form, the M1A2. I do not think this was something many other nations did with their tanks. The M4A1 periscope was changed when the 105mm and 76mm armed Shermans came online when used with these guns, they had the M47A2 for the 76 tanks, and M77C for the 105 tanks. The 17 pounder was developed to replace the 6 pounder, it was clear the 57mm 6 pounder wasn’t going to be able to handle tanks with thicker armor, but it stayed surprisingly relevant late into the war. American tank crews, who first went into action in North Africa in late 1942 during Operating Torch, fought most of World War II in the Sherman. This M36 looks like the crew are looking for something to shoot at. Also in the works as dedicated pages for these data sheets, the beta test of the gun version is up and can be found here. This post covers the Canadian and British attempt to come up with a better Sherman before the Sherman design and prototype was done. The gun worked well in the infantry support role as well, with an effective HE and WP smoke round, and a canister round. #68 The Chrysler Engine that could have been: The A-65 V12, Chrysler’s home designed tank motor. The Sherman M4A2 Medium Tank: Major Sherman Model rarely used by the US Army. As the Sherman was being designed, provisions were made so that multiple types of main armament (specified as a 75 mm gun, a 3-inch gun, or a 105 mm howitzer) could be mounted in the turret. I know the Sherman had flaws, it like all things created by man, was an engineering tradeoff, and the ones they chose, were the right ones for the US Army in WWII, and even Shermans armed with only the 75mm could have carried the day in Europe. The M3 75mm gun worked well in this role since the barrel had a life in excess of 4000 rounds. The M3 90MM gun was not mounted on any Shermans, save for the pair of test tanks when they mounted a T26 turret on an M4. They built 4993 M10s and 1713 M10A1s. Post # 68 The Chieftain’s Hatch does the M4A1, we review it. Sources: Armored Thunderbolt by Zaloga, Sherman by Hunnicutt, Combat Lessons,  Archive Awareness,  WWII Armor, Ballistics and Gunnery by Bird and Livingston,  TM9-374 90mm Gun M3. This turret came on M4A1s, M4A2s and M4A3 tanks. These, of course, did not see production. #11 The Radios: The Sherman Tank Had Some Of The Most Advanced Radios In The World At The Time. Hunnicutt is responsible for bringing out the truth about the Sherman tank. That’s not all though, I decided the gun Data sheets in Hunnicut were really interesting, so I started replicating those, but with an improved format, and slightly more data. I will cover each below. This version of the M71 was issued with the Jumbo tanks. I will update this section as I get more info on the topic. This study resulted in a prototype vehicle, the 90 mm Gun … Sherman: A History of the American Medium Tank, by RP Hunnicutt is the holy grail of Sherman books. 90 mm Gun Motor Carriage M36B1: 90 mm gun turret on M4A3 Sherman hull and chassis. The gun was intended for tank use, but the British Tanks meant for it had to many developmental problems, and were not going to be ready by Normandy landings, so the Sherman Firefly was born. These tanks did not have a stabilized gun or wet ammo racks, but did have the large hatch hull. It was used on a Sherman variant, the M36 90 GMC. They were not perfect, and as towed weapons, even really good, but on a mobile platform like the M10 or even the M6 heavy tank they did the job well enough. #63 Security On the March: How a WWII Sherman Tank unit prepared for an attack on march. The possibility of mounting the main gun of the M6 heavy tank, the 3-inch gun M7, in the turret of the M4 Sherman was explored first, but its size and weight (the weapon was modified from a land-based antiaircraft gun) made it too large to fit in the turret of the Sherman. #39 The LST or Landing Ship Tank, a Ship That Could Land Tanks. This site has more technical manuals, and field manuals on the Sherman and US Armor use than any site I know of. This periscope could be used with the 76, 75, and 105mm guns when the right reticle was fitted. Now for the books, so many books, most of these I own, and love, but a few I only have in PDF. The Ram: The Shermans awkward Canadian Cousin. The Sherman was no different here. The Sherman tank was equipped with all the gear to act as artillery if needed and was a regular occurrence in the MTO, less so in the ETO. This gun made the M36 a very sought after weapon, and a deadly one against any German armor it found. Crews added on armored roofs to their turrets, often all hinged so they could open up to really see what was going on, in the field. #8 Sherman Accessories: Pimp Your Sherman YO! It had a five-man crew and was generally liked by its crew. Tarawa: The USMCs first use of M4 Medium tanks. However, it only saw this one prototype because it was taking away … They came up with a full roof armor kit for the final turret, and a half cover for the early turrets that could be field retrofitted. They would relay the aiming information out the tanks on the radio or phone net and then they would start firing. The M3 Lee Medium Tank Page: All on one page, because Menu space is at a Premium. The M48 HE round used by the m3 75mm had 1.5 pounds of TNT inside, and since the Sherman could fire them fast, and the shell was fairly handy, it’s easy to see why the gun was good at infantry support. The gun received a muzzle brake and faster rifle twistduring production. Post # 68 The Chieftain’s Hatch does the M4A1, we review it. This page is going to a big work in progress, right now I'm all over the board on this and I can't seem to find an area to start. When they got the call, the designated battery commander for each platoon would listen to the directions on the arty net or get in direct contact with the spotter. I’ve been sent some very interesting documents, some are included in the post. It is filled with so much information about the production history, use, design, modifications, and hard specifications, that much of the data on this site comes from this book. This was one of the non-magnified periscopes. Designated as the T26E5, its frontal armor had a maximum thickness of 279,4mm (11 inches). Now a final bit about sources and this site, all the information in the various posts is true to the best of my knowledge and sources. The gun was large, heavy and bulky, and the M10 tank destroyers turret had to be rather large to fit it. The Sherman Differential: Normally just Lumped in with the Final Drives, BUT NOT HERE! The Continental R975 Page: The Main Engine in the Beginning. Other important sources are sites like Archive Awareness, who author takes Russian Soviet-era archive documents and translates them and offers opinions on them. The Links Page: An easier to find place for Links. #55 City Tanking: The Tank Infantry Team in Cities and Towns, #56 Special Gallery 1: Shermans of the Fort Benning Digital Archive, #57 Civilian Sherman Use: Hollywood, Loggers, Farmers and Frat Boys, #58 Special Gallery 2: Shermans at Fort Benning, #59 Subjugated Shermans: Shermans in Nazi hands, #60 The Sherman Tank Site Glossary: Because sometimes words are confusing. The Ford GAA Data Page: More info and technical Drawings and Manual photos than anyplace on the Internet. An M0 Wolverine on the move in St Fromond France. This capability was used often in Italy because the 3 inch gun on the M10 didn’t tear up the vital roads as much as the larger guns did. With the advent of heavy German armor such as the Panther and Tiger, the standard U.S. tank destroyer, the M10 tank destroyer, was rapidly becoming obsolete, because its main armament, the 3-inch gun M7, had difficulty engaging these new tanks frontally past several hundred yards. And we need the M6 heavy tank whit the 90mm gun. There are of course more, but that covers the really big stuff/good stuff. If you have any interest in the Sherman tank, you should by the book while it’s in print and reasonable in price, it’s fantastic. The Sherman M4A2 76w: The most common Soviet Sherman, The Sherman M4A3 76W: The tank that would grow into the ultimate Sherman. It was quickly replaced with the M4 detailed below. In January 1944, 250 T26E1s were authorized. The Sherman M4 Medium Tank: Not the First Type into Production. The M10 Turret went through several changes, the first versions were badly out of balance, and they tried to solve this by mounting the grousers for the tracks on the back of the turret. The Sherman tank and its chassis was host to a variety of guns. #1 Sherman Tank Epic Info Site: Introduction, #2 Basic Sherman History: The Previous Tanks That Led To the Best Tank Of The War, #3 The Sherman Variants: The Design Matures. The M10 was not popular in the Pacific, the thinner armor, lack of hull and co-ax machine guns and open top made for a much easier target destroy for Japanese troops. This new round had very good penetration, but had some serious accuracy problems. These tanks only had an M2 .50 caliber machine gun other than their main gun. This site is largely a one-man operation, and with that much content there will be typos and grammar mistakes, and I apologize and fixe them when I find them. I already mentioned Son of a Sherman Volume one. #31 Links: Places On The Internets About The Sherman, #32 Sunken Shermans: Shermans That The Nazis Sent To The Bottom Of The Sea. #46 Gallery V, More Sherman Photos, Some Maybe Not As High Res. Also always keep your eye out for an original printing, the photos are much better. Do you know this Tank? The Chieftains Hatch of  Wargaming fame, like him or not has produced some very interesting new information about various tanks, and his publication of the French post-war report on Panther use is a real eye-opener and was groundbreaking info. The final variant of the gun was the M1A2, installed in late production 76mm Shermans, this gun always had the muzzle brake, but had a slightly different barrel, with a minor change to the rifling twist. The Army went on to develop many different versions of this sight. Sherman Books: The place I got most of my Sherman info. This was the sight commonly found on M4A1 and M4A2 76 tanks. These people must be confusing it with the German KwK 37 L/24 75mm gun that armed the first versions of the Panzer IV. The Sherman tank went through a series of fire control changes each an improvement over the last. #67 The RAM: The Shermans awkward Canadian Cousin. #37 Dozers: The M1 and M1A1 Dozer Blade Kit. The M10 is with the 703 TDB attached to the 3rd Armored Division. Don’t bother if your ‘source info’ originated with a German wartime SS source, their wartime numbers are not at all accurate, and even the German army discounted them. #22 British Shermans: Is It A Tank Or A Teapot? Sherman, Lee and variants, Gun Data Page. Click the link above for a dedicated page on the M10. Most likely it didn't fit well with the US doctrine, the need for a big gun instead being filled by the M36 tank destroyer. The rate of fire on the gun is a little misleading, since depending on the Sherman, you would have between 6 and 12 ready rounds, more on the very early Shermans with ready rounds around the base of the turret basket. The Maintenance Maze. It can also be used for checking the adjusting of elevation devices on sighting equipment furnished with a gun or howitzer. Sherman Tank Site Post 72: Army Motors, the Magazine of the Army Mechanic! This sight was used on some M36 CMCs tank destroyers. With a twenty round a minute rate of fire, the Sherman could pump out a lot of HE in support of the infantry, and it was not unheard of for the tanks to be used as artillery. As mentioned before, several tank divisions didn’t want the improved Shermans at first. When firing during dusty -conditions the view of the target would be obscured by dust stirred up from the guns blast, the fix for this was for the commander or another crewman to stand away from the tank and talk to the crew over the intercom, via a long wire, and correct the shots onto target. This gun had a very high rate of fire in the Sherman (20rpm) and was mated with a basic stabilization system. The Sherman M4A1 Medium Tank: First and Last Produced. M1-M1A1-M1A2 guns 76.2mm Sherman Tank Gun PDF file. #8 Sherman Accessories: Pimp Your Sherman YO! Another tank destroyer based on the Sherman chassis, basically an M10A1 with a new turret mounting a bigger gun. The WF 6 pounder was a better AT gun, but, it’s HE round was not very good. Hunnicutt doesn’t specify if these were also 1.44X. In this book and several Interesting interviews, he really covers why Belton Cooper of Deathtraps fame was so wrong. This book is specific to the Marines and covers more than just Shermans use, but it does a pretty good job of covering each battle, and most of the info, along with some histories from the Marine Corps was used for the old Tarawa post. You couldn’t really take advantage of the M3 75mm guns range with this sight setup either since it had no magnification. Downloads Page: The Place For Things Too Big To Post, Like Field Manuals And Tech Manuals, and Large Reports. The Army decided to design a gun with the same ballistics, but in a much lighter, and less bulky package, in doing so the M1 gun was born. M4 Series Gunner’s position: Where the gunner did his job. However, since the Pershing itself was already in full production, interest shifted to the design of an assault version of the newer tank. #54 The Escape Hatch, Interior Lighting, Exterior lighting and Auxiliary Generator: They had to go somewhere. This prompted the creation of the full-length gun mantlet to protect the scope. This sight was used on M10 GMC tank destroyers. Sherman Book News: A book on Egyptian Shermans! Get the Sherman Tank Site Discount! They have almost everything the need to make most of these tanks in the game … #63 Security On the March: How a WWII Sherman Tank unit prepared for an attack on march. Sherman Tank Fire Suppression system: The stuff to put out fires! #65 Sherman Tanks of the US Army Official History books: This one Covered the MTO. Memorial Day, 2018, Remember what this this day is all about, the men and women who died for our Nation. Airplane Stuff: Pilots Manuals, Reports, Surveys and Books. 90mm Gun Motor Carriage M36B1 - tank destroyer based on M4A3 Sherman hull and chassis; expedient model. Sherman Tank Site Post 75, From the Army Motors Archive: Your M4 Tank Steering Brakes Should Work Gentle’n Easy, Sherman Tank Site Post 74: From the Army Motors Archive! M74 Tank Recovery Vehicle. #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. This had a much lighter open-topped turret. Conceived in 1943, the M36 first served in combat in Europe in October … These Data sheets will have much more detailed info on the motor, and will include interesting images from the manuals for the motors. The Vehicles themselves proved useful and often found themselves attached to Tank Divisions, and used in ways never planned for. The Sherman Transmission: A robust, and advanced Transmission for the time. These gun Data Sheets can be found here, Main Guns: THings that go  BOOM! Both the 37 and 75 mounts were stabilized. That doesn’t mean it didn’t get issued as a replacement later in the war since I’m going off TM’s and spec sheets and those are a small snapshot into a tanks actual combat gear. There was also a towed AT gun version of this weapon, it was generally not well liked. It had the reticle for the 76mm guns and was used on those tanks. 17 Pounder Mk IV and VII Gun Information page, M4 Series Fire Control: How the Sherman aimed it’s gun, M4 Sherman Tank Small Arms Page: The Machineguns and their mounts, used on the M4 series, Reading the Pen Charts from OOTCOR-Terminal Ballistic Data V.III. This system did not allow shooting on the move accurately, but did allow the sights and gun to be put on the target faster when the tank came to a stop to shoot. A bit about the site, and myself, I’m just a guy who really likes WWII history, and more specifically, WWII tank history. This gun made the M36 a very sought after weapon, and a deadly one against any German armor it found. based on M4 chassis with turret and gun … The M1A1 on the early tanks, like the M4A1 76 w tanks used in Operation Cobra, came without muzzle brakes. This helped, but eventually, the final production M10 turrets were widened, and even bigger counterweights were added with a distinct duckbill look to them. See its own section for more info on these Shermans. Sherman Tank Fire Suppression system: The stuff to put out fires! I will also, as I review and rewrite all the articles over time, add them to each post. The first test guns had a bore length of 57 calibers and when tested on an M4 Sherman tank, ... arming the M4 medium tank with the 90 mm gun (if need be by altering the cartridge case and gun) and (2) designing a 3-inch gun firing a 15 lb (6.8 kg) shot at 915 m/s (3,000 ft/s). When working with their assigned company, they were often held in the back, and supported the gun tank platoons with indirect or direct fire. The second periscope had a 6x telescope with an 11 degree 20-minute field of view. The M10 was a tank destroyer mounting a 3-inch anti-tank gun. The turret was upgraded and balanced better, and the crews liked to add their own roofs. I used Hunnicutt’s Sherman book for some, but others I’ve made using the Hunnicutt ones as a template and then using data from the Technical Manual for the tank. These telescopes were used on the M36 GMC tank destroyers. During his visit to the Detroit Arsenal, Gen. Holly viewed a Sherman armed with the 90mm gun M3. It had a 3.5 in (90 mm) diameter bore, and a 15 ft (4.6 m) barrel, giving it … In many cases they would be connected to the net directly, so they wouldn’t need to worry about radio reception. The Final Drives: The Panthers Achilles Heel, the Shermans Gibraltar. Post #71, War Thunder PART II: A more fair review after an extended time playing the game. The 37mm was aimed with an M2 periscope with an M19A1 periscope built in. #45 Gallery IV: You Guessed It, More High Res Photos! Later versions of this periscope had illuminated reticles. How the Marines Turned Their Tanks Into Flamethrowers | taktik(z) GDI. This ultimately lead to the M1A1 gun discussed above. The gun chart data came from here, all the data sheets, and a lot of the future things that almost made it came from here as well. The hard data is not my opinion, the specifications, and other details are not my opinion and come from many different sources. Do you know this Tank? Also very nice books but based on old outdated historical information when it comes to the unit histories, but boy are the pictures great. Drive and Shoot an Authentic WWII Sherman Tank! #34 Israeli Shermans: The Most Powerful Shermans Ever To See Action. This book is currently in print again, for 60 buck paperback, 70 hardbacks. The final fire control setup the Sherman gunner had at his disposal was pretty impressive by the standards of the time. This periscope was found on M4A1, A2, and A3 76 tanks during WWII. Sherman Tank Site Post 72: Army Motors, the Magazine of the Army Mechanic! #53 Bibliography and sources: Yeah I Know Sources on Each Post Would be Nice, I’m Working on it, #14 Main Guns: Things That Go Boom, Some Bigger than Others, but None Bad, #6 WWII Variants Other than Tanks: Things Built Using the M4 Chassis, Like the M10 and M36, Sherman Tank Site Post 75, From the Army Motors Archive: Your M4 Tank Steering Brakes Should Work Gentle’n Easy, Sherman Tank Site Post 74: From the Army Motors Archive! This was a much-improved periscope; it incorporated two telescopes with reticles, one 1.x, with a field of view of 42 degrees, ten minutes for engaging close targets. 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