The M36 tank destroyer, formally 90 mm Gun Motor Carriage, M36, was an American tank destroyer used during World War II. The M36 combined the hull of the M10 tank destroyer, which used the M4 Sherman's reliable chassis and drivetrain combined with sloped armor, and a new turret mounting the 90 mm gun M3.

In an engagement with a German Panther tank at 1500 yards an M36 of the 776th TD Battalion was able to penetrate the turret armor which became the commonplace preferred target rather than the glacis, but also the sides of the Panther.

T he M36 was another tank destroyer based on the Sherman chassis, basically an M10A1 with a new turret mounting a bigger gun. These tanks mounted the 90mm M3 gun.

Sep 23, 2021 · Thanks to a massive 90mm main gun, the M36 was one of the few American tank destroyers that could reliably engage any German armored vehicles, even at extreme distances.

The M36 utilized the hull of the MIØ tank destroyer with a larger 9Ø-mm gun. The system saw use widely by the Allies during World War Il and Korea. U.S. First, Third, and Ninth Armies were...

Jan 20, 2023 · The M36 was the last and most heavily armed tank destroyer of the US Army’s tank destroyer branch during the Second World War. Created as a more powerful development of the M10 tank destroyer, the M36 was armed with an excellent 90 mm gun that could deal with German tanks most other Allied guns couldn’t.

American soldiers of Patton’s Third Army standing in front of their M36 TD while rolling up a Nazi flag they have taken as a trophy after the capture of Bitburg.

The M36 tank destroyer, formally 90 mm Gun Motor Carriage, M36, was an American tank destroyer used during World War II. American soldiers usually referred to them as TDs for 'tank destroyers'. [3] The M36 first served in combat in Europe in September 1944, and served until the end of the war; it...

The M36 Jackson tank destroyer was a game-changer in WW2, designed to counter heavily armored German tanks like the King Tiger and Panther. Armed with a powerful 90mm canon, the M36 Jackson...

The 90-mm Gun Motor Carriage M36 tank destroyers, nick named Jackson for Confederate States of America general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, were designed to counter any potential heavily-armored German tanks, which later came true in the form of Panther and Tiger tanks.