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 you look at the top of the hatch right over his right shoulder there, theres a parascope that goes in there. It fits up into that through that space and sticks up. And inside that parscope is a is a lens that has a rhett key in it. He uses that reticle to fire that machine gun. Now this one here, theres another machine gun on this side, this is the other m1919. This is not with the main gun. This one is controlled by the gunner. He has some switchology in hi
Good morning. My name is al kose, and i one of am the volunteers here at the Army Heritage and Education Center. We are going to talk a little bit about the american medium m 4 tank, one of the most prolific tanks of the Second World War. This was one of the earlier versions. This is the m4a3 tank. This one is armed with a 75mm main gun. If we moved to the commanders weapons station here it also has , the caliber. 50 machine gun and it also has two m1919. 30 caliber machine guns. One of those is mounted coaxially with the main gun. The other is mounted here up in the front of the tank, and it is manned by the bow gunner. If you look at the bow gun, he can move it up and down and show you how that works. That is a machine gun protruding through the armored bow mount here and hes got his ammunition , in the back and to the back to catch the 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 is a periscope , and just a
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Keep eye contact with me when we go from here. You want to hear about the drop in normandy . We deported from an airfield in britain. We had been briefed and we knew exactly what conditions were in normandy and where the drop zones were located. Sometime during the fight we received aircraft fire from the right side of the planes. We were not aware that some of the midChannel Islands were occupied by the germans. That confused us because we thought we were approaching normandy. And parallel to the cause we turned north parallel to the coast of normandy. The jump master was watching the door. As soon as they could see landfall he ordered the troops to stand up and hook up. The plate was hit plane was hit by aircraft fire. The right side was knocked out. Just a few of the troopers had hooked their signs up. They dumped everybody in. Of course there was a mad scramble to get to the door. The plane was listing to the right and nobody could climb the incline to get to the door. I was able t