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M18 Hellcat at the U.S. Army Armor and Cavalry Collection, Fort Benning (now Fort Moore), Georgia After World War II, many M18s were sold to other countries. Many intended for European countries under the Mutual Defense Assistance Act were rebuilt and refurbished by Brown & Root in northern Italy in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and bear data ...
M18 Gun Motor Carriage, also known as the Hellcat, was a tank destroyer armed with a 76 mm M1 gun; Medium tanks and AFVs. In 1939, ...
The experience of employing the M3, M6, and M10 GMCs in North Africa all fed into the plans for the next generation tank destroyer, which eventually saw service as the M18, nicknamed the "Hellcat". It was equipped with a newly designed 76 mm gun—firing the same shell (from a different cartridge case) as that on the M10—mounted on an all-new ...
M18 recoilless rifle: 57×303mmR Recoilless rifle United States: Was not developed until the final stages of the war in 1945 M20 recoilless rifle: 75 x 408 mm R HE, HEAT, Smoke Recoilless rifle United States: Was not developed until the final stages of the war in 1944
front cover G1 1930. This is the Group G series List of the United States military vehicles by (Ordnance) supply catalog designation, – one of the alpha-numeric "standard nomenclature lists" (SNL) that were part of the overall list of the United States Army weapons by supply catalog designation, a supply catalog that was used by the United States Army Ordnance Department / Ordnance Corps as ...
The M39 armored utility vehicle (T41) is an American armored vehicle designed during the Second World War, which saw service in that conflict and in the Korean War.Like a number of vehicles of this type, it was built using an existing chassis, that of the M18 Hellcat.
The M10's heavy chassis did not conform to the quickly evolving tank destroyer doctrine of employing very light high-speed vehicles, and starting in the summer of 1944 it began to be supplemented by the fast M18 Hellcat. American tank destroyer doctrine called for tank destroyers to be kept in reserve and rushed forward to counter massed enemy ...
Towards the end of World War II, a tracked, fully enclosed armored personnel carrier was developed under the designation M44 (T16) that was based on the M18 Hellcat.The M44 was extremely large (51,000 lb combat weight); carrying 24 infantry as well as a driver, bow gunner and vehicle commander.