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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 7:22 pm Post subject: M4A3 75mm wet with HVSS
Hello, I remember having seen a photo of an M4A3 75mm wet with HVSS. It was a tank from the Netherlands that was sold to the USA. Which one was it? Pierre-Olivier _________________ soldat_ryan @ hotmail.com Looking for photos of Sherman manufacturer's plates

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Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 12:54 am Post subject: Re: M4A3 75mm wet with HVSS
that was this one : http://s1015.beta.photobucket.com/user/panzerpanther5/media/NL-AFV-register/Sherman%20tank/M4A3Sherman_01.jpg.html P-O _________________ soldat_ryan @ hotmail.com Looking for photos of Sherman manufacturer's plates

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Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 10:23 am Post subject: Re: M4A3 75mm wet with HVSS
P-O Its current location should be at the American air power museum in Farmingdale NY. Michel

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Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 3:31 pm Post subject: Re: M4A3 75mm wet with HVSS
I'm preparing a page describing the M4A3(75)W for "Sherman minutia", but the photo of that Sherman tank doesn't really fit with what I need... in my memory it was a bit different that what we can see on the photo. P-O _________________ soldat_ryan @ hotmail.com Looking for photos of Sherman manufacturer's plates

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Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 12:04 am Post subject: Re: M4A3 75mm wet with HVSS
What are you looking for P-O ? It's my photo and I have some more of this Sherman. And it is the only M4A3E8 with a 75mm that I know, all others are 105mm Michel _________________ I'm Not Crazy, I'm Just Not You

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Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 2:45 pm Post subject: Re: M4A3 75mm wet with HVSS
There was a nice photo of an M4A3, 75mm, Wet, HVSS from the Life magazine collection on Google

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Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 8:27 pm Post subject: Re: M4A3 75mm wet with HVSS
There is also a picture of a bunch of them sitting in a tank park in the Philippines during the war, for the planned invasion of Japan. I believe I first saw it in a Hunnicutt book. _________________ 1/72 and 1/76 scale fanatic.

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Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 12:47 pm Post subject: Re: M4A3 75mm wet with HVSS
I've done some researches on Internet and was not able to find any photo of an M4A3 75mm wet HVSS on the internet, except these two : P-O _________________ soldat_ryan @ hotmail.com Looking for photos of Sherman manufacturer's plates

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Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 6:48 pm Post subject: Re: M4A3 75mm wet with HVSS
I forgot to mention There has been some discussion about this Sherman Most likely it was a converted M74, so not original M4A3 75mm wet HVSS _________________ I'm Not Crazy, I'm Just Not You

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Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:10 pm
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Hello,

Gary Binder kindly sent me a photo of an M4A3(75)W with HVSS being tested at APG :

Michel, I thought that it would be nice to use your pictures to illustrate that particular variant of the Sherman, but it is a former M74 retriever, and some M74 modifications can still be seen on the hull. The front lifting rings are in a lower position than when it left the factory (a modification required for the M74 conversion) and there are still the fittings for the blade on the differential housing. That's why I think it was not suitable to properly illustrate that variant. The black and white photo shows the original tank, at last.

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