Tank Chats #111 | Sherman M4A1 (76) W | The Tank Museum

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by purchasing items in our online store. This is an

m4a1

and I know we've seen an

m4a1

before god knows how long ago in the series, but this one is different and therefore we are treating it as a completely different

tank

, which is quite correct, it has the same cast hull than the m4a1 except that the front has been altered and what they have done is thicken the armor a little because this is a much later model.

In the summer of 1944 they thickened the frontal armor, the rest of the armor is more or less the same . They put a slightly different version of the engine in it. It's still the continental air-cooled nine-cylinder radial engine that was in the original m4a1, but this. one has a little more power, it is transmitted to the five-speed gearbox in the front to the front sprockets and in other words it is more or less the same, the suspension is the same invented vertical volute suspension by harry knox and patented when he was working at rock island arsenal, it was modified a bit but it's still the same suspension as on the first m4a1 we saw so that's really the mechanical difference between the two and it's not a big deal, This one has the cast front which you can see here and you can see the cast hull on top of it.

The m4a1 is the only version of the Sherman with the cast hull installed and what distinguishes this

tank

from the previous one is the turret and cannon with which it is now armed. 76 millimeter long high-velocity gun in the T23 turret, which is larger and has more space. It is actually the same turret originally designed for the T23 medium tank, but that never came to anything and the turret only ended up in the 76 millimeter gun version. from the

sherman

now the 76 was a good gun no doubt it had a much higher velocity than the 75 it had a longer barrel it was more of a tank killer now to be honest it wasn't as good as the 17 pounder so good , it is the same caliber 76.2 millimeters, but the British gun was better, except in terms of accuracy, the American gun, the 76 mill up here, was probably more accurate than the 17-pounder firefly 17, which if it hit was more destructive yes No good luck, it whizzed off into outer space and that's really the only difference: it arrived in the summer of '44 and some of them were in service shortly after D-Day, but like I said before, it's the only one. type once used by the british army with the 76 millimeter cannon, they were used in italy and most famously by the 2nd royal tank regiment which in those days was commanded by peter horton who was then lieutenant colonel and who He later worked at became the curator of this place and I remember it very well.

He commanded the regiment in Italy and they had a troop of these tanks with 76 millimeter guns known as the snake troop because each tank was named after a snake that started with there was an asp, there was a viper. and there was the anaconda and they were a pretty famous trio that were used in some of the operations in later fighting in Italy and with the 76 millimeter gun you gave the tank a little bit of punch which made a big difference, it's really the same weapon, the 76 millimeter, which was installed on the Sherman tank known as Fury that was used in the movie and which also has a 76 millimeter gun and we will see it later, but it is the same type of weapon, the same weapon and all.

Otherwise, but in a slightly earlier mode in this version, it still has a crew of five, three in the turret, two men up front, a driver over here and a gunner over here with a .30 caliber brownie with the mount on the front for the weapon. which is not in the 75 millimeters, they don't need them, it has a coaxial brown next to the main gun on top and then a 50 caliber on the roof of the turret for the tank commander, which the Americans liked and some The British thought the idea was that if you saw a plane, the best response was to get into the tank, close the hatch, and wait until the plane flew away.

The Americans stood outside the turret and fired at it in hopes of shooting it down. It was just a difference between the two, just a different attitude towards the same thing. I guess otherwise it's essentially the same as the old m4a1 we saw before, built in the same factory by the same people actually, but modernized. that's what it means and it really is quite a different vehicle from that point of view, so there we have it, the 76 millimeter Sherman m4a1. If you like Sherman tanks, you really need to visit our online store, we have a variety of products there.

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