![]() Recommend that War Department be advised and tanks be shipped without sand shields. This mobile and accurate tank uses the smoother HVSS suspension and a stronger M1 76mm main gun than the standard tank. "Experience in this theater indicates that sand shields on tanks are superfluous, and are quickly taken off or knocked off by troops. The M4A3E8 'Easy Eight' is the pinnacle of Sherman development. " Although they were not part of the original design of the Sherman, from about mid 1943 until the end of production, the Ordnance Department required the factory installation of sand shields. This link is about the jumbo but it discusses the mud guards in general: The crews didnt like them because they got knocked of easy so they removed them. See that narrow bar above the middle section of the tracks with holes in it, that is the bracket that fastened the mud/sand guard. Since the M4A3E8 is not outfitted with those sideskirts. ![]() The E8 we have ingame is infact an M4A2E8 and not an M4A3E8.
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