T34 Calliope

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Well, in war thunder they modeled it with 75mm (http://wiki.warthunder.com/index.php...r_T34_Calliope) and they are very historically accurate. Also, I cannot find a picture of a Calliope with a 105mm nor any mention of the rockets being mounted on the 105 sherman. Every picture ive ever seen is with a 75mm sherman. Maybe not solid info, but all the info I can muster.

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Something made me look over here and saw this Thread...
What I have seems to indicate first used in Normandy Invasion on the M4A1 SHERMAN'S (Though as the war progressed the later versions of the SHERMAN were used as well. Ref. 3) mounting the original 76mm main gun. The T-34 CALLIOPE W/7.2 inch rockets seems to have been the most used in combat followed by a version that fired 4.5 inch rockets using multiple 3 pack aircraft rocket launchers. This from mostly Ref. 1 U.S. II CORP WWII documents.

The CALLIOPE could fire it's rockets singly/Rounds of 6/or full continuous 60 round rocket barrage. One CALLIOPE 7.2 launcher had the effective fire power of 15 Batteries of 105mm artillery. That's from the below War Department You Tube video. Ref. 2

When I open my WinSPWW2 the intro page always shows the CALLIOPE 7.2 with 76MM main gun.

http://www.752tank.com/rockettanks.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_uP-AmUEzA
[url]http://www.theshermantank.com/2016/01/[/url]

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Hope this helps.

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Regards,
Pat