#M4 sherman commander hatch archive

The report says all weapons could be fired on the tank while those 10 men were stuffed in, so I guess the US Army or Brits didn’t try this because they liked comfort or something.

The thing would be packed full of people though. O ne thing I found very interesting, is in the summer, they could pack up to 10 SMG infantry into the Lee, along with the regular 7 man crew, making it into a makeshift APC. They disliked the 75mm guns position, and lack of sites on the machine guns. They felt the R975 air cooled motor was not a great fit for tanks, for all the reasons they are not fit for tanks, mainly the size limitations they put on the tank, and as gasoline AC engines, they don’t have good low end torque, make driving harder.

They liked the transmission, differential and final drives, and in particular the steering and brake mechanism.

#M4 sherman commander hatch archive

T he Lee was not considered a very good design by the Soviet Union, you can read their evaluation here, on Archive Awareness, but it was not all negative. My impression from the things I’ve read says, they liked the all of them, well not the A4, but liked the Shermans more than the Lee. The Soviets also received a pair of M4A4 tanks for evaluation, but rejected them because of the motor. Only the UK would use more M4A2 tanks, though they received only five armed with the 76mm gun, they got far more of the 75mm armed M4A2s. They received the Lee, and M4A2 75 and 76 tanks.

T he Soviet Union received three American Medium tank types in large numbers. Soviet Shermans: The USSR Was a Big Sherman User, and They Liked it