Key point: The M-4 Sherman was easy to mass-produce, but easy to destroy. The M-4 Sherman was the workhorse medium tank of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps during World War II. It fought in every ...
Not counting prototypes, a total of 49,234 of these tanks were produced, a number surpassed only by the Soviet T-34. Officially the Medium Tank, M4, this iconic tank kept the U.S. Army’s then-common ...
Clarence Smoyer had not been inside a Sherman tank since 1945, when he occupied a gunner’s seat as the Third Armored Division blasted its way inside Germany at the tip of the American advance to help ...
The T6 began as a redesigned M3 but introduced the hull, turret ring, crew layout and engine bay that defined the M4 Sherman.