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The M4 high-speed tractor used M4 Sherman tracks, roadwheels, and drive sprocket. However, the suspension was of the HVSS type, first introduced on a light tank T6 project in 1938. One variant was designed to tow the 90 mm anti-aircraft gun , and another was for the 155 mm gun or 8-inch howitzer . [ 1 ]
The Commonwealth use of the M2 Browning .50 caliber machine gun (known as the .5 Browning in British and Commonwealth service) began in World War II, though from 1942 it was standard armament on US-built AFVs provided under lend-lease such as the M4 Sherman, M7 Priest, M8 Greyhound, or M10 tank destroyer variously used by British, Canadian ...
Cletrac in front of a P-47 Thunderbolt of the 406th Fighter Group. The M2 is a fully tracked vehicle designed to tow aircraft on primitive airfields. It was equipped with a 10,000 lb (4,500 kg) winch with 300 ft (91 m) of 3 ⁄ 8 in (9.5 mm) cable, an auxiliary generator (3 kW at 110 volts DC), and an air compressor (3 stage, 16.7 CFPM, 2,000 PSI)
High-speed. M1 unknown; M2 high-speed tractor ... M4 tractor, full-track, high-speed, 18-ton (G150 ... side skirts eliminated, remote-controlled M2HB cupola, .50 cal;
The standard secondary armament comprised; a coaxial.30 caliber M1919 Browning machine gun A5 with 4,750 rounds of ammunition, a ball-mounted M1919 A4 in the front hull operated by the assistant driver and a pintle mounted.50 caliber M2 Browning HB machine gun with 300 rounds on the turret roof for anti-aircraft protection. [103]
M2 tractor, light, wheeled, industrial type Allis-Chalmers Model B ; G-95 M1 medium tractor, model BC Cletrac, w/angle dozer; G-96 M2 light tractor Cletrac. G-96 M2 light tractor model AG Cletrac Tractor Co. 14-ton trailer. G-97 Trailer heavy-duty, 14-ton Winter-Weiss Co. G-98 M1 heavy tractor, Allis-Chalmers model HD10W; G-99 M5 tractor crane ...
The M15 half-track, officially designated M15 Combination Gun Motor Carriage, was a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun on a half-track chassis used by the United States Army during World War II. It was equipped with one 37 millimeter (1.5 in) M1 autocannon and two water-cooled .50 caliber (12.7 mm) M2 Browning heavy machine guns.
Early vehicles had a pintle mount just behind the front seats that mounted a .50-caliber (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine gun. The later M3A1 adopted a raised, armored "pulpit" mount for the .50-caliber machine gun over the front passenger seat, and additional mounts for .30-caliber (7.62 mm) machine guns along the sides of the passenger compartment.