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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 radic ....
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 insi ....
Army heritage and Education Center in carlisle. Well talk about the american m4 median tank and its one of the more prolific tanks of the Second World War. This particular example was one of the earlier versions. This is the m4, a3 tank. This one is armed with a 75 millimeter main gun and if we look to the commanders weapon station here its also got the caliber 50 machine gun up top where the commander is, and it also has two n1919 machine guns and one of them 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 bow gunner, and if you take a look at the bow gun. He can move that up and down and he can make sure it works. So that n 19 is from trprotrudi hes got his ammunition there and the catch bag to catch the shell casings as they come out. [ shots fired ] if you look at the top of the hatch right over his ....
Weapon station here, its also got the caliber 50 machine gun where the commander is and it also has two m19 machine guns one mounted with the main gun and the other is mounted here up in the front of the tank. This is manned by the bow gunner. He can move that up and down. That m191930 machine gun is protruding through the ball mount here. You got the workings of the gun. Got his ammunition back there and catch bag to catch the shell casings as they come out. You look at the top of the hatch over his right shoulder there, there is a periscope that goes in there. It is a prismatic periscope that sticks up and inside that periscope is a lens and he uses that to fire the machine gun. This one here is another machine gun, the other m1919. This is mounted with the main gun so tell investigates, depresses, turns with the tarrot. This is controlled by the gunner and he has switchology in his station to fire the main gun and the machine gun and esranging that through a similar set up you can s ....
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 ....