The M4A3E8 "effortless Eight" was a smooth-riding horizontal volute springtime suspension system (HVSS) variation associated with Allied workhorse Sherman medium tank. It was a greater hazard over predecessors as a result of a more effective, 76mm gun, and employed a V8 gas motor in its welded hull. As perhaps the finest associated with Sherman variants it played a crucial role into the ultimate Allied WWII victory, but its solution did not end there: whenever conflict flared once more in June 1950, now regarding Korean peninsula, effortless Eights had been refurbished and implemented once again, dealing with enemy T34/85 tanks operated by the Korean People's Army from the invading North, and serving till the armistice of 1953. The distinctive marking pattern shown however picture on this page is believed to have now been utilized in an attempt at emotional warfare.
