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M4 Sherman production [29] [3] [30] Designation Manufacturers Total Date M4 Pressed Steel Car Company Baldwin Locomotive Works American Locomotive Co. Pullman-Standard Car Company Detroit Tank Arsenal: 6,748 July 1942 – January 1944 M4(105) Detroit Tank Arsenal 800 February 1944 – September 1944 M4(105) HVSS Detroit Tank Arsenal 841
Chrysler's construction effort at the plant in 1941 was one of the fastest on record. [3] The first tanks rumbled out of the plant before its complete construction. [4] During World War II, the Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant built a quarter of the 89,568 tanks produced in the U.S. overall. The plant made M3 Lee tanks while the buildings were still ...
M. M2 half-track car; M2 high-speed tractor; M3 Gun Motor Carriage; M3 half-track; M3 Lee; M3 Stuart; M4 Sherman; M4 tractor; M5 bomb trailer; M5 half-track; M5 tractor
M4 Composite – Later variation of the M4 which mated a cast front portion to the welded components of the rear hull. M4(105) – Upgraded with 105mm M4 Howitzer, designed for infantry support and assault, sacrificing anti-armor capability. 47° glacis with large drivers' hatches. M4(105) HVSS – M4(105) with Horizontal volute spring ...
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 bogies; Sherman VI – M4A5 (paper designation for Canadian ...
In the 1960s, 180 M4A1(76) Sherman tanks began conversion to the diesel-powered Sherman M-51 standard with HVSS and French CN 105 F1 105 mm gun to counter T-54/55 tanks bought by Arab countries. Both M-50s and M-51s saw combat in the Six-Day War and M-50s were also employed in the 1973 Yom Kippur War .
The Lee was superseded by the Medium M4 Sherman. This originally carried a 75 mm gun; later versions of the Sherman were armed with a 76 mm gun or a 105 mm howitzer. On the Sherman hull, the M10 and M36 tank destroyers (officially called "Gun Motor Carriages") were produced.
The first standard-production 76 mm gun Sherman was an M4A1, accepted in January 1944, and the first standard-production 105 mm howitzer Sherman was an M4 accepted in February 1944. In June–July 1944, the Army accepted a limited run of 254 M4A3E2 Jumbo Shermans, which had very thick armor, and the 75 mm gun in a new, heavier T23-style turret ...