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The M4 Sherman, officially medium ... M4 Doozit, Mobile Assault Bridge, ... Suspension units and roadwheels remained the M3 vertical volute pattern, ...
M4 Mobile Assault Bridge. Field modification of the M4 to move double-track bridges. M4 Dozer – fitted with M1 (side arm) or M2 (hydraulic mount) dozer blade. Some tanks had their turrets removed. T15/E1/E2 – Series of mine resistant Shermans based on the T14 kit. Cancelled at war's end.
Battle experience showed that the service life of the original vertical volute spring suspension (VVSS) of the late model M4 was shortening due to the tank's increasing combat weight with larger guns and heavier armor. Beginning in mid-1944, M4A3 models of the Sherman adopted a newly developed Horizontal Volute Spring Suspension (HVSS). [5]
M4 with 105 mm howitzer and a dozer blade. Dozer: The bulldozer blade was a valuable battlefield tool on the WWII M4 Sherman tank. A 1943 field modification added the hydraulic dozer blade from a Caterpillar D8 to a Sherman. The later M1 dozer blade was standardized to fit any Sherman with VVSS suspension and the M1A1 would fit the wider HVSS.
Later these tanks were rearmed with 105 mm M4 howitzers. Sherman M-1 – Israeli designation of any Sherman model armed with the 76 mm gun M1. Super Sherman M-1 – Israeli designation of M4A1(76) fitted with HVSS suspension. Sherman M-3 (Sherman degem Alef prior to 1956) – Israeli designation of any Sherman model armed with the 75 mm gun M3.
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On the Sherman hull, the M10 and M36 tank destroyers (officially called "Gun Motor Carriages") were produced. The M7 Howitzer Motor Carriage was originally built on the M3 medium tank chassis, but later versions were built on the similar M4 tank chassis.
The M4 high-speed tractor used M4 Sherman tracks, roadwheels, and drive sprocket. However, the suspension was of the HVSS type, first introduced on a light tank T6 project in 1938. One variant was designed to tow the 90 mm anti-aircraft gun, and another was for the 155 mm gun or 8-inch howitzer. [1]