The Other American Tanks

[Kerick]

Kept the 13 and scrapped the rest?

[Story]

Kept the 13 and scrapped the rest?

That'd be the Most Likely answer, but you'd think 30+ perfectly useable 'agricultural tractors' would be useful to the nation's farmers - unless the entire experience was so embarrassing for all involved that everything was cannibalized/repurposed/melted down again.

But where's the fun in that? What if they packed this junk off to one of the Allies, and the combat history(ies) was equally embarrasing (and subsequently forgotten)?

I mean... that's kinda why we're here, ya?

[jcf]

Another obscure American tank - the M7 - and a part of history that falls between the pages of the books.

Officially only 7 M7 tanks were built during the whole production phase. However, 6 other tanks were upgraded from some of the previous prototype models. These models were T7E2s, their transmissions and power plants were upgraded, and their component castings improved to bring them up to M7 standard. The 6 modified T7E2s were compiled with the other 7 M7 tanks, which brought total production to 13 vehicles. What can't be explained, however, is the image below from the Wisconsin Historical Society:

This image shows at least 40 M7s in various states of completion, with hulls and empty turrets scattered around. Currently, there is no official literature available, to us at least, to coincide with this photo.
https://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/US/m7-medium.php

It's easily explained, only 13 actually rolled off the line. The rest weren't completed and thus don't
count as produced. That happened regularly with ground vehicles, aircraft, boats and ships.