How so? The HVSS suspension was given the designation E8, therefore an M4A3 with HVSS suspension can be called an Easy Eight. And as I see your comment above, the M4A3E6 was actually in reference to the standard 75mm turret, but with a 76mm instead. The W in M4A3 (76) W refers to the turret, it being the stronger turret designed to mount the 76mm. The E8 refers to suspension, as every source suggests. So no, M4A3E8 would be correct.
Bro, Easy Eight is a nickname. There’s literally no way for a nickname to be incorrect, it’s just colloquially referred to as Easy Eight because nobody wants to say M4A3E8. The same way nobody wants to say M4A3E2, so it’s called a Jumbo (postwar nickname).
That will be the M3 GMC
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Because it refers to the specific experimental Shermans with HVSS. A production Sherman (les say one with a Ford V8 and a 76mm gun for arguments sake) with HVSS would just be called an M4A3 (76) W HVSS, and the E8 designation would not be correct.
Also no, the W in the production variant Sherman doesn’t refer to the fact the turret was up armoured, it refers to the wet stowage that came with the new turret. Yes the turret with wet stowage was designed so it could also hold the 76, but that is not what that designation was denoted.
Except the Easy Eight is a nickname for the M4A3E8 which is a very specific tank meant exclusively for experimental purposes, and thus does not apply to any production variant Sherman. Forgetting the fact that E8 refers to the experimental Sherman with HVSS and not the 76mm cannon as many think it does, calling any Sherman with HVSS an Easy Eight is like calling any Sherman that has been up uparmoured a Jumbo. It is simply wrong.
Yes. Easy Eight is a nickname for the M4A3E8 tank and that tank alone. Therefore… when I refer to the Easy Eight, I am referring to that specific tank. It is not a blanket term for all Shermans with 76mm cannons, nor did I say at any point it was.
Except the tank that was being discussed was not an E8, which was my entire point.
This is the tank we were discussing.
Yes, followed by an image of an M4A3 (76) W HVSS, not an image of an M4A3E8. That whas what I was trying to say.
Fair enough, but that’s a very minor oversight by the person who posted that photo. Most people are not going to notice such a minor thing when both tanks look extremely visually similar.
M4A3E8:
M4A3 (76) W HVSS:
Well that is why I point it out, so that more people know and don’t make that mistake in the future.
Also no ,that’s not an E8 because the E8 designation refers to experimental tanks that never left Aberdeen. This is a picture of an M4A3E8.
Well the E8 designation code refers to the experimental HVSS Sherman, however for some reason people have gotten it mixed up with the production variant, and then it got assigned to the 76mm Sherman for some reason. The nickname Easy Eight followed suit. I suppose the Nickname Easy Eight can be argued as a valid one for any HVSS Sherman as that is what the E8 developed into, but it is a loose argument at best.
We have the hell cat I’m not sure how I feel about it though it was amazing in WOT back in the day. Doesn’t feel like the same thing.