Editing M4 Sherman (section)

===Eastern Front===
[[File:M4A2 Lend-Lease Tank at Grabow Germany May 1945.jpg|thumb|left|A Soviet M4A2 of the [[8th Guards Mechanized Corps]] at [[Grabow]] in eastern Germany, May 1945.]]
Under Lend-Lease, 4,102 M4A2 medium tanks were sent to the Soviet Union. Of these, 2,007 were equipped with the original 75&nbsp;mm main gun, with 2,095 mounting the more-capable 76&nbsp;mm gun. The total number of Sherman tanks sent to the USSR under Lend-Lease represented 18.6% of all Lend-Lease Shermans.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/ref/LL-Ship/LL-Ship-3A.html |title=Quantities of Lend-Lease Shipments |chapter= Section III-B |author=Office, Chief of Finance |publisher= War Department |date=31 December 1946 |page=8 |via=Hyperwar Foundation}}</ref> The first 76&nbsp;mm-armed M4A2 Shermans started to arrive in the Soviet Union in the late summer of 1944.{{sfn|Zaloga|2003|p=37}} The Soviet records reported the receiving of 3,664 tanks; the difference mainly due to deliveries being sunk on the way and discrepancies between the United States and Soviet Union archives<ref>Gillono, Claude; Hulbert, Leife. Comrade Emcha: Red Army Shermans of WW2 (Battleline, 2). The Oliver Publishing Group, 2011</ref>

The Red Army considered the M4A2 to be much less prone to catch fire due to ammunition detonation than the [[T-34|T-34/76]], but the M4A2 had a higher tendency to overturn in road accidents and collisions or because of rough terrain than the T-34 due to its higher center of gravity.<ref>[http://www.iremember.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=85&Itemid=19 Лоза Дмитрий Федорович – Я Помню. Герои Великой Отечественной войны. Участники ВОВ.] in Russian.</ref>

By 1945, some Red Army armored units were equipped entirely with the Sherman. Such units included the [[1st Guards Mechanized Corps]], the [[Guards unit|3rd Guards Mechanized Corps]] and the [[9th Guards Mechanized Corps]], amongst others. According to Soviet tanker Dmitriy Loza, the Sherman was held in good regard and viewed positively by many Soviet tank crews, with compliments given to its reliability, ease of maintenance, generally good firepower (referring especially to the 76&nbsp;mm gun version)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://iremember.ru/en/memoirs/tankers/dmitriy-loza/ |title=IRemember.ru – Memories of veterans of the Great Patriotic War – Dmitriy Loza |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=21 September 2010 |website=IRemember.ru |publisher=Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation |access-date=16 May 2018 |quote= Overall, this was a good vehicle but, as with any tank, it had its pluses and minuses. When someone says to me that this was a bad tank, I respond, "Excuse me!" One cannot say that this was a bad tank. Bad as compared to what?"}}</ref> as well as an [[Auxiliary power unit#Armored vehicles|auxiliary power unit]] (APU) to keep the tank's batteries charged without having to run the main engine, as was required on the T-34. However, according to Soviet tank crews, the Sherman also had disadvantages, the greatest being its high center of gravity and the ease of hitting it by enemy fire.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://iremember.ru/en/memoirs/tankers/dmitriy-loza/ |title=IRemember.ru WW II Memoirs |last=Loza |first=Dimitri |date=21 September 2010 |website=iremember.ru/en |publisher=IRemember |access-date=13 June 2017 |quote=<!-- Still, one great plus of the Sherman was in the charging of its batteries. On our T-34 it was necessary to run the engine, all 500 horsepower of it, to charge batteries. In the crew compartment of the Sherman was an auxiliary gasoline engine, small like a motorcycle's one. Start it up and it charged the batteries. This was a big deal to us! -->}}</ref>  The Sherman's relatively narrow-set tracks struggled to negotiate muddy terrain compared to the wider-set tracks of the T-34 or German [[Panther tank|Panther]] tank.{{sfn|Zaloga|2008|p=222}}

[[David M. Glantz]] wrote: ''"[The Sherman’s] narrow treads made it much less mobile on mud than its German and Soviet counterparts, and it consumed great quantities of fuel..."'' Glantz noted that Soviet tankers preferred the American tanks to the British ones, but preferred Soviet ones most of all.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/secret-way-allies-won-world-war-ii-181804 | title=The Secret Way the Allies Won World War II | date=3 April 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://medium.com/war-is-boring/lend-lease-saved-countless-lives-but-probably-didnt-win-the-eastern-front-77715c4ce0b9 | title=Lend-Lease Saved Countless Lives — but Probably Didn't Win the Eastern Front | date=27 March 2017 }}</ref>