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Envisioned as the successor to the M7 Priest and sporting a similar gun but on the more modern M24 Chaffee chassis, the 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M37 represented a step forward in artillery technology. Despite this, the end of the Second World War curtailed the M37’s widespread adoption and limited its deployment. Initially slated to replace its World War II-era predecessors, the M37 HMC never fully achieved this goal before being retired due to a change in military doctrine, which now required all vehicles to be able to seal against the potential nuclear and chemical hazards of a Cold War gone hot.
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FM 6-76: Service Of The Piece 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage, M37, War Department, 15 April 1945
TM 9-1901 ARTILLERY AMMUNITION, WAR DEPARTMENT, 29 June 1944
RP Hunnicutt, Stuart – A history of the American light tank, Presidio Press, Novato, 1992
Steven J. Zaloga, 077 – M24 Chaffee Light Tank 1943-85, Osprey Publishing, New York, 2003
Jim Mesko, M24 Chaffee in action: armor no 25, Squadren /Signal Publications inc, Carellton, 1988
Jim Mesko, Armor in Korea A Pictorial History, Squadren /Signal Publications inc, Carellton, 1984
Francisco Marín Gutiérrez & José Mª Mata Duaso, Carros de Combate y Vehículos de Cadenas del Ejército Español: Un Siglo de Historia (Vol. II) (translated: Tanks and Chain Vehicles of the Spanish Army: A Century of History (Vol. II)), Quirón Ediciones, Valladolid, 2005
Donald W Boose Jr, US Army Forces in the
Korean War 1950 – 53, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2005
Yuri Pasholok, HMC M37: a Fast Howitzer on a Light Chassis, warspot.net, date viewed 29 January 2024, warspot.net/430-hmc-m37-a-fast-howitzer-on-a-light-chassis
Chris Conners, 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M37, American Fighting Vehicle Database, date viewed 26 January 2024, afvdb.50megs.com/usa/105mmhmcm37.html
Rickard, J (1 August 2014), M37 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage, date viewed 26 January 2024 historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_M37_105mm_HMC.html
Matthew J. Seelinger, Tabulated Data – M37 HMC, date viewed 26 January 2024, m24chaffee.com/m37-105mm-hmc–information.html
Ryabov Kirill, T38 self-propelled mortar project (USA), en.warspot.ru, date 29 January 2024, https://en.topwar.ru/88318-proekt-samohodnogo-minometa-t38-ssha.html
Ryabov Kirill, Early American SAU projects with recoilless guns, topwar.ru, date viewed 29 January 2024 https://en.topwar.ru/88520-rannie-amerikanskie-proekty-sau-s-bezotkatnymi-orudiyami.html
Matthew J. Seelinger, M37 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriages that have survived war, scrap drives, or the gunnery range. , date viewed 26 January 2024, m24chaffee.com/m37-survivors—restored—unrestored.html
Ryan Soldat, Surviving M37 Howitzer Motor Carriers, date viewed 26 January 2024, http://the.shadock.free.fr/Surviving_M37_HMC.pdf
Walter Elkins, 2nd Armored Division [in Germany], usarmygermany.com, date viewed 7 February 2024
usarmygermany.com/Sont.htm
Walter Elkins, Field Artillery in the European Theater, usarmygermany.com, date viewed 7 February 2024
usarmygermany.com/Sont.htm
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Envisioned as the successor to the M7 Priest and sporting a similar gun but on the more modern M24 Chaffee chassis, the 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M37 represented a step forward in artillery technology. Despite this, the end of the Second World War curtailed the M37’s widespread adoption and limited its deployment. Initially slated to replace its World War II-era predecessors, the M37 HMC never fully achieved this goal before being retired due to a change in military doctrine, which now required all vehicles to be able to seal against the potential nuclear and chemical hazards of a Cold War gone hot.
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Article: tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/usa/105-mm-howitzer-motor-carriage-m37
Sources:
E J Zawadzki (compiled by), Development History of 105mm Gun Howitzer Motor Carriages and 25-pdr Gun Motor Carriage, Office of the Chief of Ordnance, 9 March 1945
FM 6-76: Service Of The Piece 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage, M37, War Department, 15 April 1945
TM 9-1901 ARTILLERY AMMUNITION, WAR DEPARTMENT, 29 June 1944
RP Hunnicutt, Stuart – A history of the American light tank, Presidio Press, Novato, 1992
Steven J. Zaloga, 077 – M24 Chaffee Light Tank 1943-85, Osprey Publishing, New York, 2003
Jim Mesko, M24 Chaffee in action: armor no 25, Squadren /Signal Publications inc, Carellton, 1988
Jim Mesko, Armor in Korea A Pictorial History, Squadren /Signal Publications inc, Carellton, 1984
Francisco Marín Gutiérrez & José Mª Mata Duaso, Carros de Combate y Vehículos de Cadenas del Ejército Español: Un Siglo de Historia (Vol. II) (translated: Tanks and Chain Vehicles of the Spanish Army: A Century of History (Vol. II)), Quirón Ediciones, Valladolid, 2005
Donald W Boose Jr, US Army Forces in the
Korean War 1950 – 53, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2005
Yuri Pasholok, HMC M37: a Fast Howitzer on a Light Chassis, warspot.net, date viewed 29 January 2024, warspot.net/430-hmc-m37-a-fast-howitzer-on-a-light-chassis
Chris Conners, 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M37, American Fighting Vehicle Database, date viewed 26 January 2024, afvdb.50megs.com/usa/105mmhmcm37.html
Rickard, J (1 August 2014), M37 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage, date viewed 26 January 2024 historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_M37_105mm_HMC.html
Matthew J. Seelinger, Tabulated Data – M37 HMC, date viewed 26 January 2024, m24chaffee.com/m37-105mm-hmc–information.html
Ryabov Kirill, T38 self-propelled mortar project (USA), en.warspot.ru, date 29 January 2024, https://en.topwar.ru/88318-proekt-samohodnogo-minometa-t38-ssha.html
Ryabov Kirill, Early American SAU projects with recoilless guns, topwar.ru, date viewed 29 January 2024 https://en.topwar.ru/88520-rannie-amerikanskie-proekty-sau-s-bezotkatnymi-orudiyami.html
Matthew J. Seelinger, M37 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriages that have survived war, scrap drives, or the gunnery range. , date viewed 26 January 2024, m24chaffee.com/m37-survivors—restored—unrestored.html
Ryan Soldat, Surviving M37 Howitzer Motor Carriers, date viewed 26 January 2024, http://the.shadock.free.fr/Surviving_M37_HMC.pdf
Walter Elkins, 2nd Armored Division [in Germany], usarmygermany.com, date viewed 7 February 2024
usarmygermany.com/Sont.htm
Walter Elkins, Field Artillery in the European Theater, usarmygermany.com, date viewed 7 February 2024
usarmygermany.com/Sont.htm
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An article by Joshua Allen
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Edited by @battlehammerwot
Sound edited by Wood
