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Celebrating WWII's greatest tank and related designs. Please excuse my fixation on the Endkampf period. Don't hesitate to ask questions or correct me.
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I'll just note that, unless clearly stated otherwise, whenever you see "early" or "final" or other such adjectives, we're talking about the changes within an exact variant, not its place in the Sherman family tree. By all means an initial prod. 76 tank is overall a late Sherman.
Extremely rare (beyond French use and C. Abrams' Thunderbolt VI tank) initial production M4A3 (76)W VVSS Shermans, with the smooth-barreled M1A1 gun and unusual XLR turret casting*. L: possibly 712TB, Metzervisse (Lorraine), November 7th 1944. R: 7AD?, Beeck (Ndrh-Wfl), 29/11/44.
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RT @shermanfannr1: An M7 Priest of the 11th HAC Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery during the battle of Sicily, mid-July 1943. Since it seems….
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Thanks to @hw97karbine for the suggestion. Source (multiple scenes):.Music: Link Wray - Rumble, 1962.
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The battle of Guam in the Marianas began #OTD in 1944. A USMC M4A2 (Fisher production) fitted with an M1 dozer arrives at the Asan beach in the central-western part of the island, likely in the first day of the operation. She has in-theater made wading gear and unique camouflage.
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Compiled from IWM.
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Footage of Operation Counterthrust in progress, following soldiers on the ground, 1951.
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One of the most famous pictures of Fireflies, usually captioned as showing the 30th Corps during op. Market-Garden. Source:.
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A Sherman Firefly advances during operations in the Odon valley, west of Caen, 16 July 1944.
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Sherman IC and IC Hybrid Fireflies of B Squadron, 1st Nottinghamshire Yeomanry regiment, 8th Armoured Brigade, XXX Corps in the Odon Valley sector, Normandy, France, #OTD in 1944. The tank in the foreground seems to have been converted from a Pullman M4. Note rare T54E2 tracks.
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