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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, May 26, 2011


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This 7-cylinder engine in a Stewart Light Tank at the Wright Museum, the same style tank one sees coming through the wall at the museum’s entrance, is similar in design to the 9-cylinder Continental aircraft rotary engine that is being rehauled for the Sherman Tank.


BRENDAN SMITH PHOTO TANK from 25


with its engine. “The Sherman has a


9-cylinder Continental rotary aircraft engine,” explained Dunham. “It had to be cranked about fifty times before it was started to disperse the oil and avoid a start-up filled with black smoke.” Not being able to see


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the interior of the Sher- man Tank that morning, it was interesting to hear Mike Hashem note that the interiors of the tanks were painted white. It was a cramped situation in the tank and not a lot of lights, so the white made it seem not so close and brighter. Sherman Tanks carried a crew of five: a driver, a


machine gunner, a gun loader, a gunner for the big gun and the tank com- mander who rode outside the hatch giving direc- tions (of course, he went inside once things got hot). Unlike the noiseless tank being loaded this morning, Sherman tanks are noisy machines as you might expect. “When the driver needed


to make a left or right turn he was usually kicked hard in that shoulder by the commander,” said Hashem. “It was difficult to hear any directions.” At first it’s hard to imag-


ine any vehicle weighing thirty-five tons in today’s plastic world, but once you experience the im- mensity and structure of


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a Sherman Tank, you get it very easily. Spare parts to the tank which were put into place once it was out of the garage, looked like two-foot by one-foot pieces of metal, and they were, except each one weighed about two-hun- dred pounds and had to be lifted by a front loader onto the tank. It made it even more


amazing when you stopped to realize that these tanks were most likely being produced in rapid fashion on the home front while See TANK on 28


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