M10 Wolverine - Walkaround - Cavalry Monument Saumur.

Originally uploaded on Feb 25, 2017

The M10 tank destroyer was an American tank destroyer during WW2,
it was officially called the 3-inch Gun Motor Carriage M10 and never Wolverine during the war.
It was armed with the 3-inch M7 gun on a modified Sherman tank chassis.

The M10 proved to be an excellent tank destroyer, but the open-topped turret left the crew vulnerable and a lot of crew were lost because of artillery fire, on the other hand the open-topped turret gave excellent
visibility which was valuable to a tank destroyer and it also improved reload speed.

The M10 was only produced from 1942 until 1943 and approximately 6,406 were made.

90 mm Gun Motor Carriage M36 began to arrive in Europe, and mostly replaced the M10 by the end of the war.
The plans to retain any towed battalions at all were canceled after their generally poor performance and high losses in 1944, especially during
the Battle of the Bulge.

The M10 would also see action in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

The M10 at the Cavalry Memorial in Saumur has no historical information, but was probably used by the French after the war and maybe by the
Free French Forces.

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