Surviving M4A3(76) VVSS Shermans
Last update : 2 December 2024
Listed here are the M4A3(76) VVSS Shermans that still exist today.
Michael Lembo, May 2012
M4A3(76) Sherman – Holding area, Kaiserslautern (Germany)
Formerly located at the US Army base, Grafenwöhr (Germany). Serial Number 44220, built in June, 1944
Pierre-Olivier Buan, April 2023
M4A3(76) Sherman – Lucius D. Clay Kaserne, Wiesbaden (Germany)
Formerly located at the US Army base, Vilseck (Germany). Serial Number 44226, built in June, 1944
Pierre-Olivier Buan, September 2014 – http:// the.shadock.free.fr/Tanks_in_France/sherman_beffe/index.html
M4A3(76) Sherman – Beffe (Belgium)
Serial Number 4391x, built in May, 1944. Combat vet. of the 771st Tank Battalion, hit by a chain of mines on 9 January 1945
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=888830163358514&set=a.570354515206082
M4A3(76) Sherman – Clervaux (Luxemburg)
Serial Number 43911, built byChrysler in May, 1944. Combat vet. of the 2nd Tank Bat., 9th Armored Division. During the battle for
Clervaux, tanks of the 707th Tank Battalion suffered heavy losses. They were reinforced by 17 Shermans from Combat Command R,
9th Armored Division. This tank belonged to the 3rd Platoon, 2nd Tank Battalion, that defended the city of Clervaux. It was hit by a
shell on the turret top without damage on 17 December, and its crew bailed out and abandoned it. During the night, the unit
commander ordered the tank to be brought back, but it was put out of action on the early morning of 18 December. A shell hit the turret
side and tear the main gun and shield off the turret (book "Les témoins d’acier” by Hughes Wenkin and Christian Dujardin)
Pierre-Olivier Buan, July 2010 - http://the.shadock.free.fr/Tanks_in_France/sherman_villesurillon/index.html
M4A3(76) Sherman – Ville-sur-Illon (France)
Serial Number 43594, built in April, 1944. Original tank from the 12th RCA, 2nd French Armored Division, knocked out during the
Battle of Dompaire in September, 1944. Despite the damages, the crew escaped without injuries
"Uri Tours”, August 2013 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/northkoreatravel/16143691415/in/album-72157646691356964/
M4A3(76) Sherman – Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum
Pyongyang (North Korea)
Probably captured during the Korean War. Painted RN 30099900. If this RN is correct, the tank has been built in April, 1944. It has
evidence of use as a dozer
Unknown source
M4A3(76) Sherman – 2nd Dragoon Regiment, Fontevraud (France)
Pierre-Olivier Buan, December 2019
M4A3(76) Sherman hull – Oberhoffen Military Camp training field
Oberhoffen-sur-Moder (France)
Manufactured by Chrysler. The position of the gun travel lock weld scars helps to identify it as a 76mm tank, not 105mm
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