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The turret armor of the 75 mm and 105 mm armed M4 ranged from 25.4 mm (1.00 in) to 76.2 mm (3.00 in) thick. [104] The turret front armor was 76.2 mm thick, angled at 30 degrees from the vertical, giving an effective thickness of 87.9 mm (3.46 in).
The M4 Sherman tank was produced in several ... M4A3E4 – some M4A3s originally built with the 75mm turret were field upgraded with 76mm M1 gun for increased anti ...
An M3 is lifted out of a Sherman tank at 5th Indian Division's tank workshop near Taungtha, Burma, 29 March 1945 A restored Mitchell aircraft showing a 75 mm M5 gun below the four machine guns. The 75 mm gun, models M2 to M6, was the standard American medium caliber gun fitted to mobile platforms during World War II.
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.
The M-50 was similar to the WWII-era British Sherman Firefly tank in that it possessed the original smaller type of Sherman tank turret (as used by US Shermans which carry the original 75mm M3 tank gun) which was fitted with a large counterweight at the turret's rear end to balance the weight of a longer and heavier tank gun.
Sherman I – M4 with 75 mm M3 L/40 gun and Continental R975 9-cylinder radial petrol engine Sherman Hybrid I – Sherman I with composite hull (cast front, welded rear) Sherman IB – Sherman I with 105 mm M4 L/22.5 howitzer Sherman IBY – Sherman IB with HVSS; Sherman II – M4A1 with 75 mm M3 L/40 gun and Continental R975 radial petrol engine
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 US version in British service was the Lee (named after General Lee); the British specification version (a different turret) was the Grant (named after General Grant). M4 = Medium M4 Sherman with 75 mm M3 (L/38) gun; M4 (76) = Medium M4 Sherman with 76 mm M1-series gun; M4 (105) = Medium M4 Sherman with 105 mm howitzer