M4 Sherman

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English: The M4 Sherman was a US medium tank in World War II
中文: M4雪曼中戰車是第二次世界大戰時美國開發、製造的坦克。
Français : Le Sherman M4 était un char d'assaut américain produit lors de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale et la Guerre de Corée

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[edit] Historic photos

  • M4 tank crew, Fort Knox, 1942

  • Sherman in Sicily, 1943

  • M4A1 tank and infantry, heading for the Cape Gloucester airdrome.

  • M4A1 tanks at Cape Gloucester.

  • M4A1 tank crosses Suicide Creek, Operation Dexterity.

  • Kwajalein Atoll, 02 Feb 1944

  • Kwajalein Atoll.

  • Sherman tank using a Churchill 'Ark' armoured ramp carrier to climb over an escarpment, 13 Feb 1944.

  • U.S. Army Soldiers on Bougainville advancing at dawn in the cover of a M4 Sherman tank, clearing out Japanese forces that had tried to infiltrate the U.S. lines at night; March 1944

  • Bougainville, 1944

  • Sherman crab flail tank under test, 27 April 1944.

  • Sherman DD (Duplex Drive) amphibious tank with waterproof float screens, 1944

  • US Army M4 Sherman tanks loaded in a LCT, circa late May or early June 1944.

  • A Sherman BARV and Sherman tanks of 13th/18th Royal Hussars during the regiment's move from Petworth to Gosport, 2 June 1944.

  • 1st Hussars tanks on a crowded beach at Courseulles-sur-Mer, 6 June 1944.

  • Near Carpiquet, 6 June 1944.

  • Sherman DD tanks advancing towards Ouistreham, 6 June 1944.

  • House to house fighting with the Germans at Riva Bella, near Ouistreham. Sherman DD tanks are providing fire support and cover. 6 June 1944.

  • German prisoners wait for collection in the shadow of a disabled Sherman Crab flail tank, 6 June 1944.

  • Sherman tank near St Leger, 11 June 1944.

  • Mired M4 Sherman tank on a Normandy invasion beach, 12 June 1944.

  • Sherman and Cromwell tanks of the Royal Marines Armoured Support Group near Tilly-sur-Seulles, 13 June 1944.

  • Canadian crew of a Sherman-tank south of Vaucelles, June 1944.

  • Marines take cover behind one of their medium tanks, Saipan, July 8, 1944.

  • Sherman tanks during Operation 'Charnwood', the attack on Caen, 8 July 1944.

  • Sherman tanks and 6-pdr anti-tank gun in the centre of Caen, 10 July 1944.

  • A Sherman Firefly crosses 'Euston Bridge' over the Orne as it moves up to the start line for Operation 'Goodwood', 18 July 1944.

  • Infantry and tanks wait to advance at the start of Operation 'Goodwood', 18 July 1944.

  • Sherman tanks carrying infantry wait for the order to advance at the start of Operation 'Goodwood', 18 July 1944.

  • Sherman tanks pass through Caumont, 30 July 1944.

  • A French Army "Sherman" tank lands on a Normandy beach from USS LST-517, 2 August 1944.

  • The crew of a Sherman tank receives rations before the start of Operation 'Totalise', 7 August 1944.

  • A Sherman tank moves through Bois Holbout, during the advance to Falaise, 15 August 1944.

  • Sherman tank of 3rd Royal Tank Regiment, 15 August 1944.

  • Sherman cuts through the bocage.

  • Sherman in Normandy, 1944

  • Sherman in Normandy, 1944

  • Sherman in Normandy, 1944

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    Polish tanks in Normandy, 1944.

  • Sherman in Paris

  • Invasion of Noemfoor Island, 1944.

  • Tinian, September 1944

  • Sherman covering Infantry, Belgium, 1944

  • Sherman tanks of the Irish Guards Group advance during Operation 'Market-Garden', 17 September 1944.

  • A Sherman Firefly tank of the Irish Guards Group advances past Sherman tanks knocked out earlier during Operation 'Market-Garden', 17 September 1944.

  • SSM William Parkes, killed when his Sherman tank was knocked out during the advance towards Eindhoven, Operation 'Market-Garden', 17 September 1944.

  • Tanks of British XXX Corps cross the road bridge at Nijmegen during its capture, Sep 1944

  • Battle of the bulge - Tankmen of the US First Army near Eupen, Belgium, 30 Dec 44

  • Battle of the Bulge - Shermans of the 6th Armored Division near Bastogne, Belgium, 31 Dec 1944.

  • Battle of the bulge - Troops of the 82nd Airborne Division advance in a snowstorm behind the tank in a move to attack Herresbach, Belgium, 28 Jan 1945

  • Sherman DD tanks crossing the Rhine, 24 March 1945.

  • Sherman tank disabled by a land mine at Iwo Jima.

  • Two M4 on Burma road, 1945

  • Fighting toward Hill 89, tanks of the 769th Tank Battalion attack a bypassed Japanese strong point, Okinawa, 1945

  • Sherman in the Battle of Okinawa, 1945

  • Bloody Ridge, Okinawa , 1945

  • A tank sunk in 5 feet of water waits for towing equipment, Okinawa, 05/1945

  • On the Ginowan road, men and armor of the 382d Infantry, 96th Division, move through a wooded area.

  • M4 burning in Leipzig, 18 April 1945

  • Sherman in Germany, 1945

  • Sherman in action, ETO

  • Sherman tanks in China.

  • M4A3 "Ronson" Shermans equipped with the Navy Mark 1 flame-thrower, Iwo Jima.

  • Cpl. Carlton Chapman...is a machine-gunner in an M-4 tank, attached to a Motor Transport unit near Nancy, France.

  • The Assault on Biak, Infantrymen Moving Up - May 1944

  • American armoured forces race through Ballon

  • Battle of the bulge - Belgium

  • Schopen, Belgium, 21 Jan 45.

  • The crew of a Sherman tank of the 9th Royal Deccan Horse, 255th Indian Tank Brigade, encounter a newly liberated elephant on the road to Meiktila, 29 March 1945.

  • The crew of a Sherman tank of the 9th Royal Deccan Horse, 255th Indian Tank Brigade, encounter a newly liberated elephant on the road to Meiktila, 29 March 1945.

  • Firing T-34 multiple rocket launcher, 14th Armored, France.

  • M4A3E8 Sherman tank fires its 76mm gun at enemy bunkers on "Napalm Ridge", in support of the 8th ROK Division, Korea, 11 May 1952.

  • M4A3E8 "Easy eight" of the 89th Tank Battalion, Korea.

  • M4A3E8 "Easy eight" tanks of the 89th Tank Battalion, Korea.

  • Abandoned Firefly, Lebanon, 26 Feb 1984.

  • Abandoned Firefly, Lebanon, 26 Feb 1984.

  • Destroyed Soviet Sherman tank, somewhere in the Soviet Union

[edit] Sherman today or in museum

[edit] Miscellaneous

  • Cutaway of an M4A4 Sherman tank.

[edit] Sherman-based vehicles

[edit] See also

More vehicles based on M4 Sherman chassis:

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