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The M4A3 was crewed by five soldiers: a driver and co-driver (who also fired a
.30-caliber machine gun firing forward) in the front of the tank and three men
in the turret: the tank commander, loader/radioman and gunner. The tank was
equipped with a 75 millimeter cannon, a .30-caliber machine gun in the turret
and a .50-caliber machine gun on top for the commander to fire when necessary.

The M4A3 was fast, with a speed of 25-30 miles per hour, and was the first
tank to have a gun stabilized using a gyroscope which allowed the gunner to
get on target faster. The M4 series of tanks were also mechanically reliable.
When it first saw combat in 1942 the M4 was an equal to the German tanks it
met on the battle field. By 1944 and 1945, however, the older style M4A3
tanks were outmatched by the German Panther and Tiger tanks. The American
tanks had not been designed to fight enemy tanks one-on-one. American tankers
used the speed of the M4, its ability to fire quickly, and their superior numbers
to defeat German tanks on the battlefield.

M4 tanks continued to serve in the U.S. Army into the Korean War and were
used by the National Guard during the 1950s. The Israeli Army used upgraded
versions of the tank into the 1970s. While the M4 is better known as the Sherman
tank, it was never officially given that name by the U.S. Army. The British
Army named the American tanks accepted into their service after American
Civil War generals and those names stuck, rather than the prosaic
numerical descriptions favored by the U.S. Army.