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  2. M4 Sherman - Wikipedia

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    That same month, the War Department reversed course and completely overruled the Army Ground Forces when making their tank production plan for 1945. 7,800 tanks were to be built, of which 2,060 were to be T26s armed with 90 mm guns, 2,728 were to be T26s armed with 105 mm howitzers and 3,000 were to be M4A3 Sherman tanks armed with 105 mm ...

  3. Lend-Lease Sherman tanks - Wikipedia

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    The 1ème and 5ème DB, which entered southern France as part of the First French Army, were equipped with a mixture of M4A2 and M4A4 medium tanks. M4A3(76) and M4A3(75)W tanks were later received from U.S. Army stocks as replacements to make up for losses in combat, and the French were also issued M4A3 (105) Shermans; the 2ème DB received a ...

  4. 8th Armored Division (United States) - Wikipedia

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    1 M4A3 105 tank; 1 M4A3 tank for the company commander. [8] Company D consisted of 17 light tanks: 3 platoons of 5 M5A1 Stuart tanks; 1 section of 2 M5A1 Stuart tanks; Shortly after arriving in Europe, the 8th swapped its M5A1 tanks for the newer, more powerful M24 Chaffee light tank. [1] [8] The M4A3 76 were M4A3 Shermans tanks fitted with a ...

  5. M4 Sherman variants - Wikipedia

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    M4A3(105) HVSS – Upgraded with widetrack HVSS [4] M4A3E2 Assault Tank – postwar nickname "Jumbo" – extra armor (including 1 inch on front, making it able to withstand shells from the German 88 millimeter guns), vertical sided turret, but about 3-4 mph slower at 22 mph. Built by Grand Blanc May-June 1944 with the T23 turret.

  6. Chemical Warfare Service: Flame Tank Group Seabees

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    The tanks produced in Hawaii all used bottled CO 2 as the propellent that was discharged at 300 psi. The majority of H5 tanks were M4 A3(105)HVSS Shermans. It was this type the Marine Corps had at Inchon in 1950. [23] In mid-1945 the Seabees started producing the second generation of these tanks.

  7. Post–World War II Sherman tanks - Wikipedia

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    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.

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  9. 756th Tank Battalion (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The 756th Tank Battalion was an independent tank battalion of the United States Army active during World War II and, as the 73rd Tank Battalion, during the early Cold War. It was later redesignated as the 73rd Armor Regiment , and is perpetuated today by the 73rd Cavalry Regiment .