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Some rearmed with 76mm guns from damaged tanks. [4] "Duckbill"-style extended end connectors (EECs) fitted to the outside edge of the tracks. Users: US, France (one vehicle) M4A3E4 – some M4A3s originally built with the 75mm turret were field upgraded with 76mm M1 gun for increased anti-armor capability. Not heavily pursued during WWII due to ...
The 76 mm M1, while an improvement over the previous 75 mm, proved to be a disappointment in its performance against the Panther tank and upgraded models of the Panzer IV Ausf. H/J in the frontal arcs. This was the case of the 76 mm M1 versus the frontal armor of these tanks only. The other arcs did not present a problem. [42]
The first standard-production 76 mm gun-armed Sherman was an M4A1, accepted in January 1944, which first saw combat in July 1944 during Operation Cobra. Variants of the M4 and M4A3 were factory-produced with a 105 mm howitzer and a distinctive rounded gun mantlet, which surrounded the main gun, on the turret. The first Sherman variant to be ...
Sherman IIA – M4A1(76)W, Sherman II with 76 mm M1 L/55 gun Sherman IIAY – M4A1(76)W HVSS, Sherman IIA with HVSS; Sherman III – M4A2 with 75 mm M3 L/40 gun and GM6046 twin 6-cylinder diesel engine Sherman IIIA – M4A2(76)W, Sherman III with 76 mm M1A2 L/55 gun (unlikely to have been used by UK troops [citation needed])
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 first Sherman to enter combat with the 76 mm gun (July 1944) was the M4A1, closely followed by the M4A3. By the end of the war, half the U.S. Army Shermans in Europe had the 76 mm gun. The first HVSS Sherman to see combat was the M4A3E8(76)W in December 1944. The M4A3E8 (76)W was arguably the best of the US Sherman tanks.
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English: USA 3070551, Early M4A1(76) Sherman tank of the 3rd Armored Division in Chêné, Belgium, September 8, 1944 Deutsch: USA 3070551, Frühe Version des M4A1(76) Sherman Panzers der 3rd Armored Division in Chênée, Belgium, 8.