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In contrast to the M10 and M36 tank destroyers, which used the heavy chassis of the M4 Sherman, the M18 Hellcat was designed from the start to be a fast tank destroyer. As a result, it was smaller, lighter, more comfortable, and significantly faster, while carrying the same gun as the Sherman 76 mm models.
M18 Hellcat; M. M3 Gun Motor Carriage; M6 gun motor carriage; M36 tank destroyer; T. T28 super-heavy tank; T40/M9 tank destroyer; T55E1 gun motor carriage; W. M10 ...
The structure of a US Army tank destroyer battalion equipped with M18 Hellcats as of March 1944. Each tank destroyer battalion was assigned 36 self-propelled or towed anti-tank guns. They also included reconnaissance and anti-aircraft elements. [10]
M18 Hellcat tank destroyer, 1943–97. New Vanguard 97. Illustrated by Jim Laurier. Osprey. ISBN 1-84176-687-9. Zaloga, Steven J. (2002). M10 and M36 Tank Destroyers 1942–53. New Vanguard 57. illustrated by Peter Sarson. Osprey. ISBN 9781841764696. Zaloga, Steven J. (2005). US Anti-tank Artillery 1941–45. New Vanguard 107. illustrated by ...
M10 tank destroyer; M18 Hellcat; M36 (tank destroyer) T48 gun motor carriage; M901 improved tow vehicle; Specialist armored vehicles. In active service.
M18 Claymore mine, an American anti-personnel landmine; M18 Hellcat, an American tank destroyer used in World War II; M18 smoke grenade, a colored smoke grenade; M18 recoilless rifle, a late-World War II recoilless rifle; SIG Sauer M18 pistol, a compact, carry sized SIG Sauer P320 used by the United States armed forces
In March 1944, the United States Army Ordnance Department authorized the conversion of two M18 tank destroyers as prime movers for the 3-inch Gun M5 on Carriage M6, a towed antitank gun used by tank destroyer battalions, and armored command and reconnaissance vehicles.
The 824th Tank Destroyer Battalion was a tank destroyer battalion of the United States Army active during the Second World War. It saw service during 1944–45 in the European Theater of Operations, primarily attached to the 100th Infantry Division in an infantry support role. After fighting through France and southern Germany, the battalion ...