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Found this on Wiki: In the years leading up to WWII, as the need for armored vehicles was realized, designers were faced with the problem of how to power the vehicles, and turned to using aircraft engines, among them radial types. The radial aircraft engines provided greater power-to-weight...

I didn't mean to imply that the pictured engine was a gasser.....we had a Sherman as a gate guardian at my last unit.....the Unit Historian owned it (well....he said he owned it...long story) and told me that it had a radial gasser in it.....it had been rescued from a range and had more than one...

I think the raidial engines were in the Shermans......I don't think they were diesel...they ran on high octane gas.....the Germans called them "Tommie Cookers" since they burned easily if hit by a round from a Panzer or Tiger tank.