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| Subject: | Re: [Article] Experience of riding a Sherman tank |  |
| Date: | Aug 2, 2005 | |
| From: | Kurt Laughlin | |
Mike, you can't rely on the turret to date the tank. In the remanufacturing process the turret was removed and there was no requirement to put it back on the hull it came from. If you can get the tank's serial off the data plate (or the rear upper hull plate in the case of a small hatch M4A3) I can tell which month it was made.
From what I can see (weld style, shape of right front plate) this tank was probably built before applique began being installed at Ford around August 1943. It looks to have hull lift lugs without the "pads" at the bottom, dating it January 1943 or later. The serial is probably 11685 to 12585.
The turret probably does date from the range you noted. If it's a General Steel Castings (G in Shield) turret, you can usually see the acceptance dates stamped into the raised area around the gunner's periscopic sight.
Looks like fun,
KL |
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 | [Article] Experience of riding a Sherman tank - Michael Bedard - Aug 2, 2005 |
| . . . Re: [Article] Experience of riding a Sherman tank - Mike - Aug 2, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Article] Experience of riding a Sherman tank - Mike Bedard - Aug 2, 2005 |
| . . . Re: [Article] Experience of riding a Sherman tank - Jim Wechsler - Aug 2, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Article] Experience of riding a Sherman tank - Mike Bedard - Aug 2, 2005 |
| . . . Re: [Article] Experience of riding a Sherman tank - Kurt Laughlin - Aug 2, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Article] Experience of riding a Sherman tank - Mike Bedard - Aug 2, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: [Article] Experience of riding a Sherman tank - Kurt Laughlin - Aug 2, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: [Article] Experience of riding a Sherman tank - Mike Bedard - Aug 2, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: [Article] Experience of riding a Sherman tank - Kurt Laughlin - Aug 3, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kurt - Michael Bedard - May 28, 2006 |
| . . . Re: [Article] Experience of riding a Sherman tank - Charlie Murphy - Aug 3, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Article] Experience of riding a Sherman tank - Mike Bedard - Aug 3, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: [Article] Experience of riding a Sherman tank - David Nelson - Aug 5, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: [Article] Experience of riding a Sherman tank - Mike Bedard - Aug 6, 2005 |
| . . . Re: [Article] Experience of riding a Sherman tank - Paul A. Owen - Aug 7, 2005 |
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