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| Subject: | Yellow-top M4s in N.Africa or Italy? |  |
| Date: | Mar 5, 2007 |
| From: | Curtis Jurrens | |
I recently picked up a book entitled "The Navy At War: Paintings and Drawings of Combat Artists" published by the US Navy Dept. in 1943. One of the paintings, entitled "Getting the Range" by Lt.(j.g.) Mitchell Jamieson, USNR depicts a Sherman in an LCM headed towards an unnamed landmass, with the crew watching shells impacting the land ahead. The book doesn't indicate where it is, but the book is arranged more or less chronologically, and it's after a few drawings of Mers-El-Kebir and before some depicting the invasion of Sicily.
The thing that caught my eye was that the entire upper surface of the Sherman's turret that is visible in the painting is yellow, wrapping down to include the slanted top of the turret bustle. The only other marking is a white star on the turret side ahead of the pistol port.
I'm not a huge Shermanaholic, but it looks to be a cast-hull M4 or M4A1 with a 75mm, low-bustle, single split-hatch for the TC, and and open pistol port on the left side. I don't think I've ever seen any photos of such a paint scheme, but it would be a colorful one to do, especially posed in a gray LCM, and that it might be of interest to some of you here who could fill in more details.
Best regards,
Curtis |
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