SH_MM Posted May 31, 2017 Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 7 hours ago, Walter_Sobchak said: The National Interest is the fucking worst. Shermans vs Tigers: Tank Wars at the Battle of the Bulge Their articles are really, really horrendous. I am ashamed that they sometimes use my blog as source for their articles. Jeeps_Guns_Tanks and LoooSeR 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted June 1, 2017 Report Share Posted June 1, 2017 Tulip rocket Shermans Belesarius, LoooSeR and Jeeps_Guns_Tanks 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meplat Posted June 1, 2017 Report Share Posted June 1, 2017 On 5/31/2017 at 3:26 PM, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said: Wow that's like debunked crap and strait up wrong info lol. Managed the third paragraph before I said "Fuck this stale bullshit". What a load of fucktarded nonsense. Jeeps_Guns_Tanks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meplat Posted June 1, 2017 Report Share Posted June 1, 2017 Posted in their shitty comment section. FWIW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted June 4, 2017 Report Share Posted June 4, 2017 Japanese tanks be so bad that a Sherman has to carry them. Met749 and Jeeps_Guns_Tanks 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogDodger Posted June 4, 2017 Report Share Posted June 4, 2017 The Marines had discovered the relatively intact Type 94 tankette on Namur in February 1944 and had decided to take it home as a trophy. According to Robert Neiman, CO of C Company, 4th Tank Battalion USMC, "...our maintenance people fixed it up on Maui and we ran around the tank training area in it and had a ball. We had to leave it behind when we went to Saipan, and never saw it again." Jeeps_Guns_Tanks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xoon Posted June 4, 2017 Report Share Posted June 4, 2017 9 hours ago, Belesarius said: Japanese tanks be so bad that a Sherman has to carry them. Is that wood planks on the side? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted June 4, 2017 Report Share Posted June 4, 2017 Just now, Xoon said: Is that wood planks on the side? Yes. "The marine 4th battalion was one of the first units to adopt the practice of layering the sides of their tanks with thick timber planks.these were added after the first marine encounters with japanese type 99 magnetic mines. ", from WWII Colorized Photos on FB. Xoon and Jeeps_Guns_Tanks 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted June 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2017 I just updated the M3 75mm gun data sheet into a booklet. http://www.theshermantank.com/wp-content/uploads/75mm-M3-spec-booklet-MK-VI.pdf If anyone could need more Data on that gun or it's Sherman mount, I'd love to talk to them cause I can't think of anything else. DogDodger and Meplat 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted June 5, 2017 Report Share Posted June 5, 2017 https://drugienovosti.project-splash.com/meeting-on-the-elbe-890fdba7546e Soviet Shermans Spoiler Quote In the picture, the American M4A2 Sherman tank, probably in the Torgau area, belong to a separate tank battalion of the 58th Guards Division, or in the 104th Guards Tank Regiment of Major Neverov, who also crossed the Elbe and met with the Americans. The tank is not new - it hatches of older design with are open upwards. It used to be that when the turret was turned, the hatch, touched by the gun, fell on the head of the driver. Therefore, they later began to make sliding version. In the photo,along with the tank, the infantrymen. The tank is suited by a cre for a comfortable long trip - here you have different stuff, a buckets and a log, and a place for infantry is covered with greatcoats. Quote Russians always beat Prussians! Brave crew "Sherman" in all its glory. The tank has a good 76 mm gun, which was better than what the T-34 had. This Sherman, named after the American general of the Civil War, William Sherman, is generally a very good tank. During the war, Americans made nearly 50,000 (the most produced American tank in history). It had his shortcomings, but our tankmen loved the Shermans, called them affectionately "emcha" (from the M4) - they were much more comfortable, more durable, more efficient than the T-34. Quote In the middle is lieutenant with a dagger on his belt. On the right in the headset and gloves, I think, is a driver-mechanic. The boy on the left, apparently, from the repair team. The main drawback of "Sherman" was a high center of gravity - at a sharp turn it could overturn. Jeeps_Guns_Tanks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted June 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2017 On 6/5/2017 at 5:57 AM, LoooSeR said: https://drugienovosti.project-splash.com/meeting-on-the-elbe-890fdba7546e Soviet Shermans Hide contents Awesome pics, but the one caption on the Sherman is wrong, it's a late model A2 and no sherman had sliding hatches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnsignExpendable Posted June 13, 2017 Report Share Posted June 13, 2017 Gotta love the little brag shoehorned in Jeeps_Guns_Tanks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted June 13, 2017 Report Share Posted June 13, 2017 On June 5, 2017 at 5:57 AM, LoooSeR said: https://drugienovosti.project-splash.com/meeting-on-the-elbe-890fdba7546e Soviet Shermans Reveal hidden contents Thus further demonstrating the Soviet love affair and power of LOG! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnsignExpendable Posted June 21, 2017 Report Share Posted June 21, 2017 This M4A2(76)W from the 8th Mechanized Corps was knocked out at Gdansk and installed as a monument, but replaced in 1946 by a Polish T-34 from the 1st Tank Brigade. As a result, no M4A2(76)W tanks were preserved in the USSR, short of those pulled out of the sea recently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted June 21, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2017 I just bought a premium one of those in War Chunder! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted June 22, 2017 Report Share Posted June 22, 2017 " An M4A3 Sherman flame-throwing tank, 4th Tank Battalion, Fourth Marine Division goes into action, along with US Marine snipers, as the battle for the possession of Iwo Jima rages on, March 1945. " -WWII Colorized Photos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_Sobchak Posted June 22, 2017 Report Share Posted June 22, 2017 On my drive home on Saturday, I plan to get some pics of the M4A3E9 at Walbridge OH. I'll be sure to get some good close-up shots of the suspension. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_Sobchak Posted June 25, 2017 Report Share Posted June 25, 2017 Photo galleries of three different M4A3 tanks in Northern Ohio https://tankandafvnews.com/2017/06/24/from-the-editor-sherman-tanks-of-northern-ohio/ Jeeps_Guns_Tanks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted June 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2017 1 minute ago, Walter_Sobchak said: Photo galleries of three different M4A3 tanks in Northern Ohio https://tankandafvnews.com/2017/06/24/from-the-editor-sherman-tanks-of-northern-ohio/ Sweet! The closest Sherman to me now is like an 8 hour drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_Sobchak Posted June 25, 2017 Report Share Posted June 25, 2017 Jeeps, have you ever seen a Sherman road wheels with these groves before? Met749 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted June 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2017 Never, that's really weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_Sobchak Posted June 25, 2017 Report Share Posted June 25, 2017 1 minute ago, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said: Never, that's really weird. Its only on one wheel on the tank at Walbridge OH. The one with the grooves is a "US Tire" brand wheel, the others on this tank are Firestone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_Sobchak Posted June 25, 2017 Report Share Posted June 25, 2017 Another hat shot. Jeeps_Guns_Tanks, Belesarius and EnsignExpendable 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted June 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2017 LOL that's pretty cool. You ever look under them? If they are rusty enough sometimes the floors will rust out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted June 25, 2017 Report Share Posted June 25, 2017 “Classy Peg”, a M4A3 Sherman tank of Co. C, 716th Tank Battalion, drives by a smoldering Japanese Type 97 kai Shinhoto Chi-ha medium tank of the 7th Tank Regiment, knocked out during fighting near Linmangsen, Philippines, on the 17th of January, 1945. On the side of the Sherman, the insignia of the Battalion, a ‘Big Bad Wolf’s head. "Although rare and lacking the scale of similar clashes in Europe, tank battles in the Pacific Theatre did occasionally happen with the largest tank operations taking place during the re-conquest of the Philippines in 1944-45 when the Japanese committed one of their few armored divisions (the 2nd) against US forces. This photo illustrates how hopelessly one-sided these clashes were, and why. Despite being superior in every way to its predecessor -the old Chin-ha- the Shinhoto Chin-ha was still years behind US armor. Its 47mm gun could only penetrate the side armor of the American M4 Sherman tank, but not the frontal armor. As for its own armor, the new tank still retained an outdated riveted construction and like all other Japanese tanks, quoting a British Intelligence appraisal: when hit by enemy fire “it was prone to disassemble itself”. So flimsy was Japanese armor that US tankers were surprised to find out that their AP ammunitions had no effect on the Japanese tanks. The armor piercing ammo simply went in on one side, passed clear through, and out the other. The US gunners started switching to high explosive rounds (usually used against infantry and soft targets) which detonated inside the tanks, blowing them apart. In the Philippines, by March 5, 1945, US forces had destroyed 224 enemy tanks suffering negligible losses in the process." From WWII Colorized Photos. Collimatrix 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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