Corvidae Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 Ok, theres no Canadian M3 Grants, I know they were part of the Canadian invasion of Sicily, and Italy, I know that several Canadian veterans complained about them in their memoirs, I know this , but I aint seeing it in the game editor,, I think I'm dissapointed, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 I think you are wrong. No, wait; I know you are wrong. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Enigma Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 Originally posted by JonS: I think you are wrong. No, wait; I know you are wrong. care to explain why? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 Because the Canadians used Shermans in Sicily and Italy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvidae Posted March 6, 2006 Author Share Posted March 6, 2006 JonS, I could be wrong , and the old guy who works at the fish&chips place could be senile or something , but he says his battalion had a platoon of grants attatched when they landed in sicily in '43 He describes them as........... "big tall buggers with a 17 pdr in the right hull, and a wee okie doke 37 on top, Big as a barn inside",, sounds like a grant to me, but again,, i could be wrong , 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Well, except that Grants never had a 17-pr installed. There is also nothing in that quote that specifically says they were Canadian Grants. Apart from anything else, Canada didn't have armoured 'batalions', so presumably the platoon (which for an armoured unit should read 'troop') was attached to his rifle batalion (and him being a rifleman owuld explain the mangled units used, and also thinking the 75mm was a 17-pr). In which case, the tanks could easily have been British. See also: http://www.forces.gc.ca/dhh/downloads/cmhq/cmhq113.pdf and http://www.forces.gc.ca/dhh/downloads/cmhq/cmhq132.pdf [ March 06, 2006, 05:50 PM: Message edited by: JonS ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Originally posted by JonS: Well, except that Grants never had a 17-pr installed.On top of that, I don't recall any 17pdrs on Sicily except towed. No SPs that early. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breakthrough Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 The rescue ship from Remulak must finally have come for Dorosh.... He would have been all over this one.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvidae Posted March 7, 2006 Author Share Posted March 7, 2006 ok so possibly brittish grants attached to a canadian formation ? sombody find Dorosh, he would know 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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