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M-4 Sherman with 90mm Gun
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A rare, test mule of an M-4 Sherman mounting a Pershing style turret and 90mm gun. One of many tests conducted by the U.S. Army Ordnance Department in spite of a lackadaisical mentality regarding the need for better, more powerfully armed tanks by both Ground Forces Command and Armored Command...
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A huge portion of the US land-based military vehicles during WWII were built by the automotive industry. The problems with that industry today existed during WWII. The US auto industry os constrained by inflexibility. The assembly line was designed to...
A huge portion of the US land-based military vehicles during WWII were built by the automotive industry. The problems with that industry today existed during WWII. The US auto industry os constrained by inflexibility. The assembly line was designed to build an M4 tank. If the War Dept wanted to build something else then a new assemply line would need to be built, at the cost of the taxpayers of course. However, at the end of the war the auto industry kept the modern assembly line and built automobiles that required the least amount of modifications to the assembly line. That is why the M4 kept being built, whether they were needed or not.