Education center. We will talk a little bit today 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, the m4a3 tank. This one is armed with a 75millimeter main gun. If we move to the commanders weapon station, it also has the caliber. 50 machine gun and two m1919. 30 caliber machine guns. One of those is mounted coaxially with the main gun. The other is mounted here and is manned by the gunner. If you look here, he can show you how that works. That machine gun protruding through armored ball mount 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 hash, right over his right shoulder, there is a periscope that goes in there. It is a prismatic periscope that fits through that space and sticks up. Is a lenst periscope that has a radical and he uses that radical to fire the machine gun. This
About the american m4 medium tank, one of the most prolific tanks of the Second World War. This was one of the earlier versions, the m4a3 tank. Its armed with a 75millimeter main gun. It also has the caliber. 50 machine gun and two m1919. 30 caliber machine guns. One is mounted coaxially with the main gun. The other is mounted here and is manned by the gunner. If you look here, he can show you how that works. That machine gun protruding the armored ball mount and hes got his ammunition in the back and to the back to catch the bag to catch the shell casings. If you look over his right shoulder, there is a periscope there, and its a prismatic periscope that sticks up through that space. In the periscope is a lens and he uses that to fire the machine gun. This is another one. This one is controlled by the gunner. There is a switch to fire the machine gun. He ranges that through a similar set up. His periscope comes up from the inside, and that is how he is looking. One of the things you w
Army heritage days is an annual event held in may at Army Education center in carlyle, pennsylvania. Hundreds of hobbyists conduct dd talk to the public about the military from the American Revolution to the war on terror. The theme this year was dday 75th anniversary. Next on american artifacts we visit a living history camp to learn about the experiences of the armys 517th parachute Regimental Combat Team. U. S. Soldiers who fought in the Maritime Alps of france 75 years ago during the autumn of 1944. Good morning. I am part of a Group Representing f company of the 517th parachute regiment part of the unit called the 517th prct short for parachute Regimental Combat Team. It is a largely forgotten, over shadowed unit of the war because it was a smaller unit, numbered about 2500 men throughout the war. It was comprised of three smaller units, the 517th parachute frant regiment, the 596th airborne engineer company and the 460th parachute Field Artillery battalion so those three units to
It also has the caliber. 50 machine gun and two m1919. 30 caliber machine guns. One is mounted coaxially with the main gun. The other is mounted here and is manned by the gunner. If you look here, he can show you how that works. That is a machine gun protruding through their and hes got his ammunition in the back and to the back to catch the bag to catch the shell casings. If you look over his right shoulder, there is a periscope there, and its a prismatic periscope that sticks up through that space. In the periscope is a lens and he uses that to fire the machine gun. This is another one. This one is controlled by the gunner. There is a switch to fire the machine gun. He ranges that through a similar set up. His periscope comes up from the inside, and that is how he is looking. One of the things you will notice, their field of vision is fairly limited. The critical thing for the commander was, he would have to lay the main gun on the target such that the gunner can see it. Typically, t
Good morning my name is al coast. I am a volunteer here. Well talk about the american m4 medium tank this is one of the most prolific tanks of the Second World War. This is the m4a3 tank. Its armed with a 75mm gun. It also has the caliber. 50 machine gun and two m1919. 30 caliber machine guns. One is mounted coaxially with the main gun. The other is mounted here and is manned by the battle dinner. Gunner. If you look here, he can show you how the ball term iturret works. He has his ammunition in the back and to the back to catch the bag to catch the right here, its a prismatic periscope that sticks up through that space. At the periscope is a lense that has a radical. He uses that this is another one on this side. This is not the main gun. This one is controlled by the gunner. There is a switch to fire the machine gun. His gutters periscope comes up to the inside his gunners periscope comes up for the inside. Their field of vision is fairly limited. The critical thing for the commander