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Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra
I think this is a very good candidate to be restored as a Sexton GPO?
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When I shared this on the Sherman Register FB page, Stuart Wright in the UK replied "
I've got the complete front of a Sexton which could be used to restore it".
So there you are: the lower hull is there, the front is there, just add a couple of slab sides (it has been done before) - and hey presto: a GPO!
Roy Aalderson's Sexton GPO under restoration:
Sexton GPO (Gun Position Officer) “DARLING” of D Troop, 36th Battery, Canadian 23rd Field Regiment on parade in the Netherlands at the end of the war in 1945. It looks like this GPO was converted from a Sexton Mk.I (note the 3-piece final drive asssembly and M4 bogie and regular VVSS track).
