32595 Tamiya 1/48 m4a3e8 Sherman Tank

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the First instance of the new tank, designated М4АЗ, produced by the Company Ford Motor Company at the end of may 1942. Serial machines of early production still had viewing slots in the frontal part of the body, but the cover of the transmission hatch was already cast, and the upper frontal sheet of the body, unlike other models, was welded from a smaller number of parts. Production of the first series of M4AZ with a 75-mm gun and dry-laying ended in September 1943, and in February 1944 to the production of these tanks, but with wet-laying (model M4A3(75)W) started the factory Fisher Tank Arsenal. Tanks with 76-mm gun began to leave the shops of the plant Detroit Tank Arsenal, part of the concern Chrysler, in March 1944. Until the end of September, 1400 M4A3(76)W were manufactured, which had a vertical suspension and caterpillars with a width of 421 mm. But since August began to produce a version of M4A3(76)W HVSS with horizontal suspension, in the production of which from September to December 1944 took part and the Fisher Tank Arsenal plant, which produced 525 units. Production of M4A3(76)W HVSS in Detroit ended in June 1945, when the last 1217-th tank of this modification came out of the factory gate. Thus, a total was taken out of the context 1742 tank M4A3(76)W HVSS.