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Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
I repeat, Hanno can clarify, he's far more conversant with the tank's ideosyncracies than I am. He'll be on here in the morning (Dutch time)... 
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Well, thanks for the introduction Geoff, and to everyone else in the room: welcome to the Sherman Master Class
Michael, neither the Sherman III or V had a loader's hatch or the cupola style commanders hatch with vision blocks. Like Geoff said, these were features of the improved generation of Sherman tanks which did not come into use with Canadian units until after WW2.
The Sherman VC Firefly did have a loader's hatch, this was part of the conversion carried out to fit the 17-pdr gun.
HTH,
H.