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The vehicle was also dubbed "King Kong" by American operators due to the raw power of its gun. [citation needed] In 1945, the M12 was complemented in Europe by the M40 gun motor carriage, designed on a late-war M4A3 Sherman chassis with the 155 mm gun M1 the successor to the 155mm M1918. Postwar, the M12 was retired from service and replaced by ...
The 37 mm gun motor carriage M6, also known as M6 Fargo, and under the manufacturer (Dodge)'s designation WC55, was a modified Dodge WC52 light truck mounting a light anti-tank gun. It was used by the United States Army for infantry support and as a mobile anti-tank gun. It operated from late 1942 to January 1945 in the Mediterranean, European ...
M6 gun motor carriage, (T21), M7 howitzer motor carriage, (T32) M8 howitzer motor carriage, (T17E1), Scott; M9 gun motor carriage, (T40), M10 gun motor carriage, (T35E1), M11 not used; M12 gun motor carriage, (T6), M13 multiple gun motor carriage; M14 multiple gun motor carriage; M15 multiple gun motor carriage; M16 multiple gun motor carriage
Operational. range. 150 mi (240 km) Maximum speed. 47 mph (75 km/h) The M3 gun motor carriage (M3 GMC) was a United States Army tank destroyer equipped with a 75 mm M1897A4 gun, which was built by the Autocar Company during World War II. After observing the new and often decisive use of armored vehicles on both sides during the French campaign ...
The July 1943 Ordnance Publications for Supply Index (OPSI); page 68) sums up in detail, the coverage of Group G as: "Armored, half-track, and scout cars; gun, howitzer, and mortar motor carriages; cargo, mortar, personnel, half-track and universal carriers; armored amphibian, light, medium, and heavy tanks; light, medium, heavy, crane and amphibian/track-type tractors; wheeled tractors ...
LVT(A)-1 "amtank": M6 in mount M44. [34] 37 mm gun motor carriage T22 – eventually light armored car M8: M6 in mount M23A1; the competing designs 37 mm gun motor carriage T43 / light armored car T21 and 37 mm gun motor carriage T23 / light armored car T23 mounted the same weapon. [38] Armored car T13. [39] Armored car T17: M6 in mount M24. [40]
M36 GMC = M36 Gun Motor Carriage with 90 mm M1 gun; M7 HMC = M7 Howitzer Motor Carriage, M3 (Grant) or M4 (Sherman) hull with 105 mm howitzer in forward-facing mount. Given the service name "Priest" by the British. M12 GMC = M12 Gun Motor Carriage, M3 (Grant) hull with 155 mm M1918 gun in forward-facing mount; M30 Cargo Carrier, ammunition ...
Front view of M6, with several early M3 light tanks in the background Side view. By October, the US developers reached the same conclusion as their European counterparts. The armament was changed to a single vertically stabilized 3-inch (76.2 mm) gun and a coaxial 37 mm gun in a single three-man turret with both manual and electric traverse.