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WW2 Tanks Of The Allies

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When I am going over these tanks I will be focused on the hard factories (speed, power, amour). However, there is much more about these tanks I while not be talking about, and would highly recommend doing your own research on these tanks as well. Also, these are not all the tanks used if I covered all the tanks this book would go on forever.

Tank: T 34
Nation: USSR

The T-34 was the main tank of the USSR which they would use for the whole war and even after for some time.
The T-34 would be mounted with man different times of guns. However, the gun I will be focused on for the T-34 (and all the tanks) is the first gun that was mounted on the tank.

Gun: The gun that the T-34 was mounted with was the L-11 tank gun. The gun fired a 76.2 mm shell at a rate of 6 to 7 shells per minute.

Amour: The tank had an amour thickness of about
15–45 mm of amour

Engine: The T-34 was equipped with a 38.8L V-12 diesel engine which was able to produce 500hp power.

Tank: M4 Sheman
Nation: USA

The M4 Sherman was the tank that the USA used most of WW2 and was also used after and was fazed in 1999 (The USA fazed it out much earlier). This gave Sherman a life of almost 60 years.
The M4 Sherman had the highest survivability of any tank of WW2. As well as being one of the most reliable tanks of the war. There are many variants of the tank used however I will only be focusing on the base version.

Gun: The Sherman was mounted with a 75 mm main gun which was able to kill most axis tanks

Amour: The Sherman had good amour having 76 mm (3 in) thick amour in the front and 30 mm (1.18 in) every else on the tank

Engine: The Sherman had a 3.0L inline 6-cylinder which gave the tank a top speed of 30 mph

Tank: Matilda II
Nation: UK

Britsh tanks are often not well known. This is mostly due to the fact that they used many American tanks, they had lost all of the tanks in Dunkirk and did not have the industry to rapidly make tanks as the USA did. However, there were still Britsh made tanks were still used throughout the war.

Gun: The Matilida 2 Mounted a QF 2 Pounder Gun

Amour: The Matilda 2 had 20 to 78 mm of amour. 20mm in the back and 78 mm in the front

Engine: The Matilda 2 has a lower speed than many of the tanks on this list only having a max speed of
16 mph.

Tank: Hotchkiss H35/39
Nation: France

French tanks are in a very interesting situation as the surrender of France very early in the war meant that they were not making new tanks as other countries did during the war.

Gun: The Hotchkiss support a 37 mm (1.46 in) Puteaux SA 38 gun.

Amour: Hotchkiss only had 0.98-1.57 in of amour which is not much but the Hotchkiss was made to be a light tank.

Engine: The Hotchkiss has a Hotchkiss 8-cyl inline 6l engine which could produce 22.6 mph on and off road.