logging in or signing up sherman tank kbirkesdrees Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 112 Category: Entertainment License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: November 11, 2010 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript The Sherman TankThe Tank that Won the War : The Sherman TankThe Tank that Won the War By: Evan Grzeszczak Importance of the Sherman : Importance of the Sherman -49,234 -14;1 Shermans-Germans more Shermans than the British and German tanks German tanks more powerful. - only way Shermans could attack German tanks, from the backside. German Tank back German Tank Front The Shermans Origins : The Shermans Origins -Start, T-6 medium tank. Side doors 75mm M2 gun. Turret w/ counterweights, gun mount designed for longer barreled - All problems The Sherman Models’ Main Characteristics : The Sherman Models’ Main Characteristics -The M4 had a welded hull - Continental R975 engine. M4A1 twin fixed machine guns M3 75mm gun drivers hatch Assistant driver’s hatch Hatch on turret Escape hatch bottom of the tank. -The M4A2 twin General Motors 6-71 -diesel engines to shortage of petrol gasoline engines (used on planes). The Sherman Models’ Main Characteristics : The Sherman Models’ Main Characteristics - M4A3 500hp ford GAA V-8 petrol gasoline engine - most advanced 75mm Sherman. Design Changes In the Sherman : Design Changes In the Sherman M4A1, M4A2, M4A3 three most produced Shermans. Armor shape changes The turret and gun, no big changes only 75mm to a 76mm some Sherman models. The sloped armor M4A3 and M4A2 helped it to deflect some of the incoming rounds of the axis tanks - early M4A1 curved armor The Sherman Additions : The Sherman Additions Sherman T34 Launcher “calliope” had 60, 4.5 in. rockets! - Sherman flamethrower M3-4-3 flamethrower in 30 cal. machine gun spot. range of 60yd. -The Sherman Rhino 5 spikes running over trees and obstacles. Where Was the Sherman Used : Where Was the Sherman Used - First action in October 1942 With British Army in battle of El Alamein. Sherman used by the Americans in pacific and in Europe. Sherman was used by Canada, France, Israel, Poland, Russia, Japan, and China. Captured by Germans and used against the Americans and allies. Left-British Sherman Middle-Israeli Sherman(post WW2) Right- German Sherman Sources : Sources Forty, George. "The Tank that Won the War: The M4 Sherman." United States Tanks of World War Two. New York: Sterling Publishing Company, 1983. 97-133. Print. "M4 Sherman Tank." World War 2 Insightful Essays. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Oct. 2010. <http://www.2worldwar2.com/sherman "M4 Sherman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Oct. 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4 You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
sherman tank kbirkesdrees Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 112 Category: Entertainment License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: November 11, 2010 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript The Sherman TankThe Tank that Won the War : The Sherman TankThe Tank that Won the War By: Evan Grzeszczak Importance of the Sherman : Importance of the Sherman -49,234 -14;1 Shermans-Germans more Shermans than the British and German tanks German tanks more powerful. - only way Shermans could attack German tanks, from the backside. German Tank back German Tank Front The Shermans Origins : The Shermans Origins -Start, T-6 medium tank. Side doors 75mm M2 gun. Turret w/ counterweights, gun mount designed for longer barreled - All problems The Sherman Models’ Main Characteristics : The Sherman Models’ Main Characteristics -The M4 had a welded hull - Continental R975 engine. M4A1 twin fixed machine guns M3 75mm gun drivers hatch Assistant driver’s hatch Hatch on turret Escape hatch bottom of the tank. -The M4A2 twin General Motors 6-71 -diesel engines to shortage of petrol gasoline engines (used on planes). The Sherman Models’ Main Characteristics : The Sherman Models’ Main Characteristics - M4A3 500hp ford GAA V-8 petrol gasoline engine - most advanced 75mm Sherman. Design Changes In the Sherman : Design Changes In the Sherman M4A1, M4A2, M4A3 three most produced Shermans. Armor shape changes The turret and gun, no big changes only 75mm to a 76mm some Sherman models. The sloped armor M4A3 and M4A2 helped it to deflect some of the incoming rounds of the axis tanks - early M4A1 curved armor The Sherman Additions : The Sherman Additions Sherman T34 Launcher “calliope” had 60, 4.5 in. rockets! - Sherman flamethrower M3-4-3 flamethrower in 30 cal. machine gun spot. range of 60yd. -The Sherman Rhino 5 spikes running over trees and obstacles. Where Was the Sherman Used : Where Was the Sherman Used - First action in October 1942 With British Army in battle of El Alamein. Sherman used by the Americans in pacific and in Europe. Sherman was used by Canada, France, Israel, Poland, Russia, Japan, and China. Captured by Germans and used against the Americans and allies. Left-British Sherman Middle-Israeli Sherman(post WW2) Right- German Sherman Sources : Sources Forty, George. "The Tank that Won the War: The M4 Sherman." United States Tanks of World War Two. New York: Sterling Publishing Company, 1983. 97-133. Print. "M4 Sherman Tank." World War 2 Insightful Essays. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Oct. 2010. <http://www.2worldwar2.com/sherman "M4 Sherman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Oct. 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4