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Old 16-12-08, 22:15
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Originally Posted by David_Hayward View Post
It would appear that the Canadians and British were issued with GMCs but in the first instance I have not yet come across any documentary evidence, and secondly I suspect that there were, as with other types, ex-US hand-outs in the Mid-East and perhaps in Sicily, and post-TORCH.
i´m pretty much convinced they were not (only) in-theatre hand-me-downs: your GMC list quotes SM contract numbers, for instance.

From the photo page of No. 75 O.T.U. R.A.F. North Africa here are a couple of GMC CCKW-353´s in RAF service in North Africa and Palestine, respectively.

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