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By August 1943, the M4 tank armed with the 76 mm gun in the modified T23 turret was finally ready for production. A proposal was made by the Armored Force for a test run of 1,000 tanks for combat trials and, if that was successful, then devoting all M4 tank manufacturing capacity to those armed with the 76 mm gun. [2]
The first Sherman to enter combat with the 76 mm gun in July 1944 was the M4A1, then the M4A2, closely followed by the M4A3. By the end of the war, roughly half the U.S. Army Shermans in Europe had the 76 mm gun. The first HVSS-equipped Sherman to see combat was the M4A3(76)W in December 1944. [citation needed]
The turret of T20/T23 prototypes with its 76mm gun was adapted to the Sherman and entered production in February 1944; M4 variants with this armament had the suffix ...
This was an internal gun/mortar mounted in the left side of the turret of the M4 Sherman tank. The M3 mortar was a conversion of the British SBML Ordnance 2-Inch Mortar that was used from 1943-1945. It could lay down a smoke cloud within 20 to 120 yards of the vehicle. R4AAA = Bomb, Smoke, Mk.I/L.
Sherman IVA – M4A3(76)W, Sherman IV with 76 mm M1A2 L/55 gun; Sherman IVB – M4A3(105), Sherman IV with 105 mm M4 L/22.5 howitzer Sherman IVBY – M4A3(105) HVSS, Sherman IVB with HVSS; Sherman V – M4A4 with 75 mm M3 L/40 gun and Chrysler A57 multibank 30-cylinder "cloverleaf" petrol engine in a longer rear hull with more widely spaced ...
The prototype of the M10 was conceived in early 1942 and delivered in April that year. After appropriate changes to the hull and turret were made, the modified version was selected for production in June 1942 as the "3-inch Gun Motor Carriage M10". It mounted the 3-inch (76.2 mm) gun M7 in a rotating turret on a modified M4 Sherman tank chassis.
Existing Shermans include an 'Easy Eight', with cast chassis (likely mid production M4A1), D82081 (T23) turret, 76mm gun (with muzzle brake), HVSS suspension, and sharp nosed differential cover. [8] The collection is expected to include all major Sherman variants and an M10 tank destroyer once restorations are complete.
Pakistani M4A1E6 Sherman on display at Ayub Park.. E4/E6 Shermans – Two of what would become the last of the US-produced Sherman tank variants. During the early 1950s, US Ordnance military depots and/or outsourced private civilian contractors installed the 76 mm M1 tank gun in the older small-type turret (designed for the original 75 mm M3 tank gun) of M4A1 and M4A3 Shermans.