The M4 Sherman’s March From the Seas Not counting prototypes, a total of 49,234 of these tanks were produced, a number surpassed only by the Soviet T-34. Officially the Medium Tank, M4, this ...

All three tanks mounted additional machine guns in the hull and turret for anti-personnel use and ranging against armored targets. The Sherman alone additionally mounted a heavy .50-caliber ...

The M4 Sherman tank was a key player in the Allied victory during World War II, but its legacy is far from simple. While it became one of the most recognized and widely used tanks in the war, the ...

The M4 drastically improved its design over the M3 by moving its main gun from a side sponson to a 360-degree traversing top-mounted turret. This design wasn't possible with the M3 but was ...

Even more powerful was the Sherman Firefly, a conversion project undertaken by the British Army to mount the 76.2mm “17 pounder” high velocity gun on a Sherman turret and chassis.

It equipped an M4 Sherman tank with 60 plastic rocket tubes, each of which could fire a 4.5-inch/114-millimeter-diameter M8 rocket. Each M8 carried a 4.3-pound explosive charge and had a maximum ...

In conjunction with the museum’s new We Can Do It! WWII exhibition, the 38-ton Sherman tank will be on display outside of the History Center through January 2016.