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Subject: [Leica] There's something about German design ...
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Mon Jan 15 13:07:11 2007
References: <200701150418.l0F4IlM8086419@server1.waverley.reid.org> <315738.85149.qm@web90412.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200701150654.l0F6svXV004648@server1.waverley.reid.org> <45AB5497.2010403@gmx.de> <200701152003.l0FK3lKV020678@server1.waverley.reid.org>

See:  http://afvdb.50megs.com/usa/m4sherman.html

M4A3 development with a 105mm + 2 rocket launchers designated M31 1943-1944

M4(105) VVS version February 1944 total 800 built in Detroit
M4(105) HVSS version September 1944 total 841 built in Detroit

Also M4A3 (105) 2359 built at Detroit dated September 1944
British designation Sherman IVBY.
Douglas

Marc James Small wrote:
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> The US forces moved from the 75mm low-velocity to the 76mm 
> high-velocity to the 90mm.  The 105 did not come on board until the 
> M60 entered the fray in 1962.  It was replaced in the second and later 
> versions of the M1 with the 120 fin-stabilized gun.
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> Marc
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> msmall@aya.yale.edu
> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
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