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the_shadock · 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

the_shadock · 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

Tichenor · 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

the_shadock · 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

Michel_Krauss · 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

binder001 · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 25, 2006 Posts: 363

There was a nice photo of an M4A3, 75mm, Wet, HVSS from the Life magazine collection on Google

Costas_TT · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Feb 15, 2012 Posts: 387

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.

the_shadock · 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

Michel_Krauss · 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

the_shadock · Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:10 pm Post subject: Re: M4A3 75mm wet with HVSS

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.

Pierre-Olivier

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