As I mentioned, I spent several years getting bits together, the single most expensive was new track and roadwheels. However, the wheels turned out to be less good than I had been led to believe but more on that later. I also spent some time getting the vehicles identity. M4A4s have the vehicle serial number stamped on each towing lug, [...]
This is the hull after blasting. It seemed a pity to remove all of the original paint and markings but I did record everything I found with photos and tracings. It turned into a long day as the blasters finished about 4.00 pm and I wanted to get it back inside and primed that day. So it was on with [...]
Having finished the blocks, I concentrated on the centre casing which joins everything together. Again, having two sets of everything helped but both sets of oil pumps had pitting on the gears and I had to use some nos pumps I just happened to have. Actually, the reason I had all these parts is because I had spent the previous [...]
The aforementioned fan was the only casualty in the recovery as a blade broke off as we unloaded in my yard. Due to the size of the engine, the fan sticks through the floor and is normally protected by a large armoured casting but that was missing. I did keep the broken blade and it later welded back on with [...]
A U.S.-built Sherman tank and a Soviet MiG jet are among the attractions in the expansion of Paul Allen’s Flying Heritage Collection at Paine Field. You don’t need to know much about a Sherman tank, or a Soviet MiG fighter jet, to know you wouldn’t want to see either bearing down on you. The 33-ton tank has a 75-mm cannon [...]
4000 hours later, Adrian Barrell walk us through the restoration of his M4A4 Sherman – from range wreck to world class restoration. My Sherman, M4A4 serial number 5271, was built in September 1942 by Chrysler at the Detroit Tank Arsenal. It was the 467th built out of a total production run of 7499 M4A4s. Issued to the US Army with [...]
The M4 Sherman, formally Medium Tank, M4, was the primary tank used by the United States during World War II. Thousands were also distributed to the Allies, including the British Commonwealth and the Soviet Union, via lend-lease. In theUnited Kingdom, the M4 was named after Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, following the British practice of naming their American-built tanks after famous American Civil War generals. Subsequently, the British name found its way into common [...]
This is about two World War II warriors and how the bond they made during the conflict goes on, even beyond death. Frank Cushman and John Signes were what John called “formidable friends” for 66 years. They met as members of an Army tank unit in France during the war. Frank was a farm boy from Ilion; John grew up [...]
The story of the M4A3E8 Sherman Tank starts back in the late 1970′s when the museum was just getting started. During a conversation at the museum director’s place of business, the museum came up. One of his secretaries suddenly announced that as a youngster she had to write a story for a “current event” project for school. Searching the newspaper [...]
A tank museum anywhere is a strange spectacle. It documents humanity’s ingenuity and ambition, and also its desire to demolish whatever is in its path with terrifying finality. A tank museum tucked into the tranquil hills here is stranger still. A tiny town west of Stanford University, Portola Valley is the sort of place where breezes tinged with the scent [...]
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