Good morning i am one of the volunteers, in the Education Center in carlile, i want to talk to today about the american m4 medium tank. It is probably one of the most prolific tanks of the Second World War. This particular example is one of the earlier versions. This one is armed with a 75 millimeter main gum and we move to the commanders weapons station hair it has the caliber 50 machine gun where the commander is and it has to 1919 machine guns. The other gun is mounted here up in front of the tank. This one is manned by the bell gun and he could move that up and down he can show you how it lifts so that am 1919 machine gun is shot through this ball right here this whole. Hes got his ammunition back there and the shell casings as they come out. You could see those. You look at the top of the hatch, right over his right shoulder there, there is a periscope that goes in there. It is just as the name implies, its the periscope that fits up in that space, and inside there, is a land and
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Experiences with the sixth Armored Division in european theater, including fighting in the battle of the bulge. Mr. Slater served as an aide and shared stories about patton. The National World War Ii Museum conducted this interview in 2009 for its oral history collection. 2009. Is august 5, thomas with the National World War Ii Museum. Today i am with Esther Benjamin schleider. For the record, please state your full name. Olafchleider benjamin schleider. Were reborn . Mr. Schleider texas. When were you born . One of the things i remember is, my grandfather, who was a very successful is businessman, was nra, theppy with the National Coverage at recovery act. He had a lot of choice words to say about that. I also remember, we had some tom operations in addition the business my father was in. To,we had to kill cattle for some reason, it was part of the program. And it was very distressing to my family to have cattle killed. We tried to process as much of the meat as possible. And preserve
We begin on the role of middle east oil on american policy since the end of world war ii, American History tv, this weekend, every weekend, on cspan 3. Good morning. I name is al kose, im one of the volunteers here. Were going to talk about the american m4 medium tank. Probably one of the most prolific tanks of the Second World War. This particular example was one of the earlier versions. This is the m4a3 tank. This is armed with a 75 millimeter main gun. If we move to the commanders weapons station here, it also has the caliber 50 machine gun up top where the commander is. And it also has two m19, 1930 caliber machine guns. One is mounted with the main gun and the other is mounted here up in the front of the tank. And this one is manned by the battle gun. If you look at the battle gun, he can move it up and down. He can show you the way the ball turret works. This has the workings of the guns, his ammunition back there and a catch bag to catch the shell casings as they come out. If yo
My name is al kose, and im one of the volunteers here. Were going to talk about the american m4 medium tank. Probably one of the most prolific tanks of the Second World War. This particular example was one of the earlier versions. This is the m4a3 tank. This is armed with a 75 millimeter main gun. If we move to the commanders weapons station here, it also has the caliber 50 machine gun up top where the commander is. And it also has two m19 1930 caliber machine guns. One is mounted with the main gun and the other is mounted here up in the front of the tank. And this one is manned by the battle gunner. If you look at the battle gun, he can move it up and down. He can show you the way the ball turret works. That machine gun is protruding through this ball mount here and beyond that has the workings of the gun. He has his ammunition back there in a catch bag to catch the shell casings as they come out. If you look at the top of the hatch right over his right shoulder there, theres a perisc