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| Subject: | M4A3 75W HVSS!!!!! |  |
| Date: | Sep 2, 2006 |
| From: | Alex Borsboom | |
Hi guys,
The Thunderbolt VII(!) kit is the first with a new HVSS (working!) and a lot of other (detail) improvements and 'goodies', so don't mix it up with the earlier Thunderbolts Dragon did recently.
I've ordered mine today, I was eagerly awaiting this kit for some time. I do agree with Mike, the first decent M4A3 HVSS Sherman on the market! And long overdue too, I might add.
I'm gonna use this kit to build a M4A3 75W HVSS, a rather enigmatic variant of the Sherman but my personal all time favorit of the series. It was produced towards the end of the war along side the 76W and 105H A3 versions and was intended exclusively for the Pacific theater, as the opposing armour encountered there was still no match for the 75mm and the good HE capabilty of this gun was preffered over that of the 76.2mm and even over the unstabilised 105mm.
Information though is scarce, The Hunnicut book has one picture of these vehicles stored, awaiting the never to happen invasion of Japan. And another pic of a heavily modified command/radio tank during the Korean war.
Even Steve Zaloga, when asked, could not help me any further on the whereabouts of these Shermans. (Were they used, scrapped, converted, exported postwar, etc.?) If anyone has some additionall information on the history of this sub type I would be very happy to learn about it.
Cheers,
Alex |
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 | DML M4A3E8 'Tunderbolt' - Mike Bedard - Sep 1, 2006 |
| . . . Re: DML M4A3E8 'Tunderbolt' - David Bridges - Sep 2, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: DML M4A3E8 'Tunderbolt'-David - Mike Bedard - Sep 2, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: DML M4A3E8 'Tunderbolt'-David - David Bridges - Sep 2, 2006 |
| . . . Were the old HVSS Shermans bad ? - Pawel Kowalski - Sep 2, 2006 |
| . . . . . . M4A3 75W HVSS!!!!! - Alex Borsboom - Sep 2, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: M4A3 75W HVSS!!!!! - Pawel Kowalski - Sep 2, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: M4A3 75W HVSS!!!!! - mike foncannon - Sep 3, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Were the old HVSS Shermans bad ?-Pawel - Mike Bedard - Sep 2, 2006 |
| . . . Re: DML M4A3E8 'Tunderbolt' - Paul A. Owen - Sep 2, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: DML M4A3E8 'Tunderbolt' - Paul A. Owen - Sep 2, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: DML M4A3E8 'Tunderbolt'-oops - Michael Bedard - Sep 2, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: DML M4A3E8 'Tunderbolt'-Paul - Michael Bedard - Sep 2, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: AFV Club M40 and DML M4A2 - Paul A. Owen - Sep 2, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: AFV Club M40 and DML M4A2-Paul - Michael Bedard - Sep 2, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: AFV Club M40 and DML M4A2-Paul - Paul A. Owen - Sep 2, 2006 |
| . . . It's THUNDERBOLT - Michael Bedard - Sep 2, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Update: DML M4A2 Tarawa - Chris Oldfield - Sep 3, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Update: DML M4A2 Tarawa - mike foncannon - Sep 3, 2006 |
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