New D-Day vehicles for the Canadian army

[derk derin]

Hi all,
I was watching an old video of the Bill Gregg CMP get together in the mid 80's and found it very interesting the guests he had that were part of the whole picture of design and development of Canadian production of military vehicles and one fact I had never heard before that one of the guest speakers mentioned was that he recommended that the Canadian Army have all brand new vehicles for the Normandy invasion at a cost of I believe $130,000,000.00 which he said was approved and done.Can anyone add to this story as my copy of the tape had been a copy of copies and the sound was poor.I saw Phil Waterman come up and ask questions to the guests,maybe you can confirm this story? I thought it was an interesting fact that somebody didn't want to use vehicles that had been worn out and started the invasion with new vehicles.I would also like to know if there is a copy of this tape still around with good audio to hear the rest of the stories they had to tell.
Derk.