Ok,Martin, back to work it seems...No, itīs not a problem as the truth is all that matters!
"The M4A2 with diesel engine shipped to the USSR as a part of lend-lease agreement. The Americans used those tanks in marine units only since there were no problem with diesel fuel."
http://www.battlefield.ru/library/lend/sherman.html
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Production of the Sherman during the war totaled 48,347 tanks.
M4A2 - Welded hull and with a General Motors diesel engine. The majority of these appears to have been sent to Soviet Russia in 1942. Others were used by the US Marines and by the British Army and a few by the US Army.
The principal bottleneck threatened to be the supply of engines; the designated engine was the Wright Continental radial air-cooled engine which had been derived from an aviation design, but these could not be produced in the vast quantity required and alternative engines were therefore tested and approved. This led to a variety of different modeals, according to the engine fitted and the type of hull construction.
http://www.expage.com/tanksus1
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http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/U...nks/M4/M4.html
Indeed the diesel version ads up to some 10 000 pieces I think and most of them were shipped to the Russian front, thatīs what I think it says here. So the Shermans were "Ronsons"?