Spiess Collection :
Frank Spiess…A Man of the Guard…1920-1960.
Object Name:
Bookend
Year Range from:
1946
Year Range to:
1970
Description:
76mm Anti-Tank Artillery Round Bookends
shot from M10 Anti-Tank Destroyer
Property of Frank Spiess, Sr.
c. post 1946

The 76mm anti-tank round was used by the M10 Tank Destroyer, the main weapon of the 773rd Tank Destroyer Battalion until April 1945. It then switched to the M36, which used a 90mm anti-tank gun.
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