The M4 Sherman Tank Epic Information Thread.. (work in progress)

[Clan_Ghost_Bear]

The Venezuelan army has restored an M32 recovery vehicle to service.

[DogDodger]

M74, perhaps?

[Clan_Ghost_Bear]

@DogDodger According to Infodefensa, they received a pair of M32s in 1945 as Lend-lease aid.

https://www.infodefensa.com/latam/2016/07/19/opinion-venezuela-actualizacion-parque-medios-blindados.php

[DogDodger]

Ah, if it was converted from an M32B3 then it's an M74B1.

[March 31 1945]

Looking for ANY information/photos on the Sherman’s In the 2nd Armored, 67 Division, B Company on March 31 1945. (It’s the day my Uncle John Mast died. A grenade was supposedly tossed in the tank. Archives say they were attacking a rail yard in Hamm Germany that day). Thank you more than you know, in advance.

[historynerd]

What was the biggest AT gun fitted in a Sherman in a turret?

[Alzoc]

2 hours ago, historynerd said:

What was the biggest AT gun fitted in a Sherman in a turret?

 

If you are talking purely anti-tank gun inside a turret it would be a 105 mm on the Israeli M-51 :

Spoiler

 

During WW2 there was also a 105 mm howitzer version :

Spoiler

 

If you are a talking about Sherman based vehicles during the war it would be the 90mm of the M36.

If you are talking about base Sherman hull and turret only it would a 76 mm.

Finally you have all the open-top artillery versions where calibres are all over the place.

 

Alternatively you could be comparing not only calibres but penetrating power, and in that category the Chilean tanks equipped with an OTO-Melara high velocity 60mm deserve a mention :

Spoiler

 

I'm sure I forgot a variant somewhere, but @Jeeps_Guns_Tanks will remedy to that^^

You can visit his site in the meantime : https://www.theshermantank.com/

[Lord_James]

9 hours ago, Alzoc said:

 

If you are talking purely anti-tank gun inside a turret it would be a 105 mm on the Israeli M-51 :

  Reveal hidden contents

 

During WW2 there was also a 105 mm howitzer version :

  Reveal hidden contents

 

If you are a talking about Sherman based vehicles during the war it would be the 90mm of the M36.

If you are talking about base Sherman hull and turret only it would a 76 mm.

Finally you have all the open-top artillery versions where calibres are all over the place.

 

Alternatively you could be comparing not only calibres but penetrating power, and in that category the Chilean tanks equipped with an OTO-Melara high velocity 60mm deserve a mention :

  Reveal hidden contents

 

I'm sure I forgot a variant somewhere, but @Jeeps_Guns_Tanks will remedy to that^^

You can visit his site in the meantime : https://www.theshermantank.com/

They supposedly also mounted an M26’s turret on a Sherman to. 


 

I do have my doubts if this could be done, though.