M4 Sherman

The M4 Sherman tank was a medium tank employed by the United States of America. It saw the&#160;United States, and some of it's allies via the&#160;Lend Lease program,&#160;through the darkest days of World War II, and was produced in massive numbers throughout it's relativly short&#160;production time. From the start of it's production in 1941 untill the end of it's production in the late 1940's, over 50,000 were produced. It also served as the basis for many new vehicles such as tank destroyers, self propelled artillery and tank recoverers. It was named the Sherman by the British in accordance with thier practice of naming American made tanks being used by them after famous generals who served in the American Civil war, and was named after General William Tecumseh Sherman.