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#1: M4A3 75mm wet with HVSS Author: the_shadock, Location: Normandy, France

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 7:22 pm
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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

#2: Re: M4A3 75mm wet with HVSS Author: the_shadock, Location: Normandy, France

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 12:54 am
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that was this one : http://s1015.beta.photobucket.com/user/panzerpanther5/media/NL-AFV-register/Sherman%20tank/M4A3Sherman_01.jpg.html

P-O

#3: Re: M4A3 75mm wet with HVSS Author: Tichenor, Location: Antwerp

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 10:23 am
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P-O

Its current location should be at the American air power museum in Farmingdale NY.

Michel

#4: Re: M4A3 75mm wet with HVSS Author: the_shadock, Location: Normandy, France

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 3:31 pm
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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

#5: Re: M4A3 75mm wet with HVSS Author: Michel_Krauss, Location: Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 12:04 am
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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

#6: Re: M4A3 75mm wet with HVSS Author: binder001,

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

#7: Re: M4A3 75mm wet with HVSS Author: Costas_TT,

Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 8:27 pm
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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.

#8: Re: M4A3 75mm wet with HVSS Author: the_shadock, Location: Normandy, France

Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 12:47 pm
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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

#9: Re: M4A3 75mm wet with HVSS Author: Michel_Krauss, Location: Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 6:48 pm
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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

#10: Re: M4A3 75mm wet with HVSS Author: the_shadock, Location: Normandy, France

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.

Pierre-Olivier

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