Surviving Sherman Jumbos Last update : 30 May 2018
Listed here are the Sherman M4A3E2 Jumbos that still exist today.
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M4A3E2(75) Jumbo – Heintz Barracks, Bastogne (Belgium) SN 50511, built in July, 1944. The correct Registration Number is 3083108, this is not the original “Cobra King”
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M4A3E2(75) Jumbo “Cobra King” – National Mus. of the US Army, Fort Belvoir, VA (USA) Serial Number 50487, Registration Number USA 3083084, built in July, 1944. This tank is the original “Cobra King”, which broke out the German siege around Bastogne in December 1944 and was nicknamed “First in Bastogne”. It was brought back from Vilseck in Germany to the USA, and was restored to the condition and markings it was on 26 December 1944. The former 76mm gun, which was installed in March 1945, was replaced with an M3 75mm gun given by the Fort Benning’s Jumbo (see above). It was transferred to the US Army Museum in Fort Belvoir in August, 2017
Billy Nedorvich, May 2018 - https://www.facebook.com/nedorvich/photos
M4A3E2(76) Sherman Jumbo – National Armor and Cavalry Museum Fort Benning, GA (USA) Serial Number 50429 (built in June, 1944). The correct Registration Number is 3083026. The tank’s 75mm gun was installed on “Cobra King” and it has got the 76mm gun instead (Don Moriarty). This vehicle is currently stored and is not publicly visible
David D. Jackson, March 2018
M4A3E2(75) Sherman Jumbo – Carbon Hill, AL (USA) Serial Number 50418, built in June, 1944. The correct Registration Number is 3083015 (Don Moriarty). It has the incorrect differential housing and is missing the engine deck (Chris Hughes)
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M4A3E2(75) Sherman Jumbo – Minnesota Military Museum, Little Falls, MN (USA) Serial Number 50344, built in May, 1944. The correct Registration Number is 3082941 (Don Moriarty)
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M4A3E2(75) Sherman Jumbo – The Collings Foundation, Stow, MA (USA) – running c. Serial Number 50331, built in May, 1944. The correct Registration Number is 3082928 (Don Moriarty). This vehicle was part of Jacques Littlefield Collection in California. The entire Littlefield collection was donated to the Collings Foundation, and only 80 of the 240 vehicles of the collection will be displayed in a new museum, which will be built in Massachussetts and is expected to open its doors in late 2018. The other vehicles were sold in an auction in August 2014
Photo provided by the owner
M4A3E2(75) Sherman Jumbo – Private collection (USA) This Jumbo is actually a composite of two seriously shot up hulls. The primary is SN 50570 / RN 3083167, built in July, 1944
John McMichael, July 2016
M4A3E2 Sherman Jumbo resto. project – Private collection, Whiterock, BC (Canada) This turret and chassis may come from Camp Ripley target range, Little Falls, MI (USA). The serial number is reported as being 50398 (RN 3082995), built in June, 1944. The turret serial number is 12 (Joe DeMarco). This tank has been mocked up with incorrect diff and mantlet to sit static until restoration time, the owner has since located a proper M4A3E2 mantlet and is busy fabrication a turret basket, restoration will begin approx spring 2018
“52willysm38a1“, August 2006 - http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2095380240042318703WzZDvQ
M4A3 Sherman w/ Jumbo turret – 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment Museum Fort Carson, CO (USA) Serial Number 62726, built by Fisher as a M4A3(75) VVSS in December, 1944 (Jim Goetz). Of interest on that unit is that the spacers for the gun travel lock were apparently removed from a Jumbo, & retrofitted to a regular M4A3 hull. This seems like more trouble than it would have been worth simply to make a display tank. It may have been done by a remanufacturing firm to make a useable post war Sherman?? (Joe DeMarco)
I’m looking for photos of those vehicles: M4A3E2 Sherman Jumbo hull wreck – Camp Ripley target range, Little Falls, MI (USA)
This document is a compilation of photos published on the web. I would like to thank especially Rafał Białęcki, who deserved the most of the job on this document, and also the people who took these photos and put them on their websites, or sent them to me, and those who helped me doing these lists (particularly people of the AFV News Discussion Board). For any question, you can email me at
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