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Sherman| Town and administrative headquarters of Grayson County, northeast Texas, USA; population (2000) 35,100. It is located 88 km/55 mi north of Dallas, near Lake Texoma (the Red River), and 24 km/15 mi south of the Oklahoma state line. It is a processing and shipping centre for agricultural products; textiles, electronics, and machinery are manufactured. Austin College (Presbyterian) was founded in Sherman in 1849. |
| Settled in 1846, it developed as a stage line stop in the 1850s. In the 1870s the railway reached the town; Sherman today remains a freight line centre. A distribution point for regional oil, crops, and livestock, it developed industrially after World War II. |
Sherman| US Medium Tank M4. It was used by all Allied armies in World War II, and although no match for the German Tiger or Panther until given a heavier gun, it proved reliable, easy to operate and maintain, and a suitable basis for several variations such as rocket-launchers, mine-clearers, swimming tanks, and self-propelled guns. In its basic form it weighed 32 tons, had a speed of 40 kph/25 mph, and a crew of five. |
| After putting the Medium Tank M3 Grant into production the US Army took the basic hull and chassis design and added a new turret with a 75 mm gun. This became the M4 Sherman, standardized 5 September 1941. Mass production began March 1942 and 49,234 were built between then and June 1945. |
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