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Where is the serial number plate located inside the M3?

Huh? Beaurocrats playing general harming their own country's troops? That can't be right!

My father in law , who was in a lot of WW2 combat. Told me the Shermans were deathtraps. One hit from a German 88 and they were gone. Wear as the Shermans rounds just bounced off the big cat German tanks. They needed the Pershing. The Germans used to say it took 10 Shermans to knock out 1 Panther or Tiger.

1000000 pistols and only one casualty. This means that statistically it's the safest pistol design ;)

I saw one for sale in Finland for 250€ ... from some dead collector's collection

Switching to your pistol is always faster than reloading. About 20 times faster.

Hotter than a $2.10 pistol.

Will this become a series, as with the vehicles at the museum? If so, I look forward to whatever comes next!

If only if they had hi points 😂😂😂

Imagine having like ten on your person and just switching them out like how old pirates did with flintlock pistols

the right pronunciation of "cupola" is REALLY rare in youtube videos! Yours is spot on.

A good video but you didn’t mention two bits of trivia about the thing. It does have sights but is a smoothbore, rifling was determined to take too long and too costly for the thing. Its range was about 10 feet at best so you could shoot an enemy soldier and take their much better gun. The other bit is that it’s the only firearm in history that actually took longer to load than it took to produce.

Very clever, especially the extendable chassis.

Excellent video! Short, to the point and loaded with history & facts. The narrator was knowledgeable, had excellent dry humor, and spoke fluidly and intelligently. I hope you guys do many more videos on Small Arms.

To use this thing you would have to be massively brave and desperate add to that you would be nuts to try and reload it any where near an armed enemy.

The second piece at the end seems very similar to the modern ALTOR that is on the market

Yo I just visited you guys recently, and whole crap 10/10 loved it, would do again

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This thing was great, but horrible. And it's fun to use in games. I believe it's in H3VR, I'll check tomorrow. ☕🐝🇺🇸

Great video. I wish more channels were this purely informative.

i have this in battlefield v

Any gun is better than no gun, I personally prefer the Sten guns we British gave, slightly harder to conceal but disassembled you can, and it uses the same 9mm ammo the Germans used.

The T/M26 was a great American WW2 "Heavy" that pushed the boundaries of what the US MIC could produce in class. The fact that a capable and (mostly) working tank was actually produced and deployed well before VE Day is a minor miracle. The T/M26, while not a "wunderwaffe", was more than capable of defeating any German armor produced during the war and went on to help save the UN in Korea.

what happened to your hand?

I enjoyed visiting the museum. It was very nice. In hindsight the U.S Army should have spent all those resources they spent on Tank destroyers on the heavy tank. They really should have had the Pershing after North Africa.

Imagine trying to liberate your country when the government takes your guns

Nerf jolt

thats not actually what they were used for. it was so people could take themselves out instead of being captured.

Almost none of them were actually used in France.

They were never used.

It was a terrible idea and most of the pistols manufactured were recycled after the war.

It’s a jolt reskin

I also want one!

I get it, STICKLERS

It amazing, we had aircraft carriers, submarines, airplanes or semiautomatic rifles, during WWII. Generals were always, fighting the last wars.

i want one

Thanks Dan, from an old gunship driver, RVN 67-68.

Great video! Thank you!

6:29 Why does the 75mm look so long compared to vehicle in the museum at the start? It doesn’t have a muzzle break either. The regular 75mm didn’t protrude over the front of the hull 🤔 Must be using the L/40 gun of the Sherman instead of the original L/31 of the Lee, I guess.

The word is mobile, not Mobil, that's a petrol company !

more ships than tanks??

That dummy gun fooled me at first. I am delighted I found this site. Very interesting. From a WWII buff in the UK. Thanks.

It was way cool, and yeah, Bogie TC'd one in, "Sahara."

Fabulous presentation! Well paced, technically detailed and progressive. Fascinating coverage of the progressive development of the type in US service. And encourages investigation of the crew/vehicle interaction in training; and combat. I'm hooked!

Arthur Herman wrote a book called "Freedom's Forge"! It was about how the civian industry ramped up to win the war!

This thiing looked goofy AF in warno so i had to look it up lmao....

What a great episode, this channel gets better every time

If Pearl Harbor happened today, the dumb dumb in the White House would apologize to Japan and offer to reimburse them for the cost of their fuel, bombs, bullets, and torpedoes.

#FiveStars

The US Army didn't want a heavy tank in 1943 yet Congress did since they were worried about not being re-elected in 1944. The press had the public worked up over the big German cats blowing away the puny M4. Ordnance began design work on the T20 series as soon as the M4 went into production. By making it lower they could increase the thickness of the armor. They experimented with torsion bar suspensions and two types of drivetrains. One was the Ford GAA driving the Buick Hydromatic automatic transmission and a gasoline-electric drive where one electric motor powered each track. Both were tried out first on the cancelled M6 heavy tank. The M6 used a larger Wright radial engine with a fluid drive. The radial spun a generator for the electric motor drive. The armor users were really interested in the electric drive since that allowed the tank to travel at the same speeds in forward and reverse. Congress threatened to cut further funding for tank development if Ordnance didn't have heavies in combat before the 1944 Fall Elections so the Ordnance engineers supersized the T23 into the T26 that used the same engine and trans as the T23 medium. They showed it to Congress in December of '43 who ordered it into production in February of '44. In the meantime Ordnance placed orders for 250 T23 GAA w/Hydromatic and 250 electric T23s. GM's Fisher Tank Arsenal (Fisher Body) was selected to be the assembly plant. Fisher was producing the M10 TD so was given the contract to produce the M36 turret to mount on their M10 hulls. Fisher had time to do that since they had to wait on machinery to produce the M26. Fisher had labor problems so fell behind on building the M10 hulls. Ordnance then directed Ford to set the M36 turret on new M4's coming off the production line and finish the conversion outside in the storage yards. Ordnance then rounded up all the M10's at training bases to be refurbished at other plants to become a M36. Fisher was ready to assemble the M26 in September but didn't have any parts yet. Their suppliers were delayed by filling existing contracts then having difficulty obtaining the needed strategic materials. While waiting Fisher designed and built the M4 Jumbos. The M26 finally started production in November after the elections. Congress now demanded for the first 20 made to be sent to Europe ASAP. Ordnance took the first three made and ran them nonstop around a test track for 500 miles. Two made it with the third losing road wheels after travelling 300 miles. Ordnance declared that was normal wear and tear so said the 20 were ready for battle. Those arrived in February without trained crews, mechanics or replacement parts. The Army refused to use them until ordered to by Ike who had Congress and General George C. Marshall raising Hell about that.