Sherman Tank Site Post 74: A Guide Through The Maintenance Maze
While I was poking through some old issues of Army Motors, I ran into this fascinating little guide to the Armies maintenance system. Most people who have not dealt with some kind of large motor pool have no idea the large maintenance tail a big number of tanks or even trucks has. A hell of a lot of men and equipment are required behind the front to keep the 5 men and their Sherman running in combat.
I thought this would be a good place to link to the new paper put out by Arthur Gullachsen on the Canadian Military History site. The report is called No Shortage of Tanks!: THe Canadian Army’s SYstem for the Recovery Repair and Replacement of A and B Vehicles and Major Weapons Systems.
This fascinating report gives a very nice overview of the Canadian version of the echelon Maintenance system. Between the Army motors article and Arthurs Report, it covers just about any questions I could have come up with on how the Allied maintenance systems were run.
Special thanks to Hanno Spoelstra of the Sherman Register for finding the report!
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Buscando en Google, encontré este sitio.
Soy un modelista aficionado, de la ciudad de Córdoba, Argentina, que siente mucho cariño por el tanque y que trata de aprender cada día mas.
Desde niño he comprado y armado modelos del tanque en escala 1/72, reproduciendo los usados por mi pais, y los que se usaron en la segunda guerra mundial.
Hace unos días, en una feria, me mostraron una pequeña caja, que dicen que era de reparaciones, que venian dentro de los tanques Sherman, con una gran cantidad de piezas dentro.
Ahora quiero averiguar, si realmente eran o no de un tanque, y saber en lo posible para que se usaba cada una. Por eso, estoy buscando algun manual o despiece del Sherman, a mi pais, llegaron dos modelos, el A1 y el A3, aunque muy pocos saben el numero real, se habla de 500, enviados por Gran Bretaña, como parte de pago de la deuda por los alimentos enviados durante la WW2
Agradecido desde ya si pueden ayudarme. Fuerte abrazo.