Ryan's M3 medium

[Luke R]

Correct me if im wrong, but didn't the M3 stuart use the 670 and the M3 Lee/Grant petrols the R975 Continentals?

[anthony urek]

Yep my mistake, Ill fix it.

[Ganmain Tony]

Great photo's Anthony... thanks very much for sharing them.

The story I heard about the Firefly Luke, was the pom's offered to fit the 17 pounder to the Shermans to give it the ability to tangle with the Tiger 1 ( and anything else the Germans had...Mark IV's, Panthers etc).

But the Yanks were for some reason very distrustful of the Brits meddling with their tanks so not many were converted.

Apparently fitting the British gun involved reversing the existing turret. Interesting to hear they may have based it off something we did with the Sentinel.

The Firefly must have been effective though. It got Micheal Wittman which would have been no mean feat. Even if he did drive into their ambush.

[maple_leaf_eh]

Originally Posted by Ganmain Tony

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The Firefly must have been effective though. It got Micheal Wittman which would have been no mean feat. Even if he did drive into their ambush.

errr? There is a new and compelling theory that the Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment (Radley Walter's squadron HQ troop) conducted a troop shoot of 75mm Shermans at Wittmann's broadside when he came charging up a long field to plug some hole on the frontline and passed a bedraggled troop lagerred in a low-walled farmyard.

[Peter Walsh]

There was an episode of 'Battlefield Mysteries' on the History Channel about Wittman's demise. Apparently the British Yeomanry opened up on his right with fireflys and took out the other tanks with him but he was over 900 metres from them. The Sherbrookes were on his left and got him with 75's at about 150 metres. Amazing what they have on TV these days.

There is a restored Grant at the Meandarra Anzac Museum and Emu Gully has a running Grant in their Air and Land Spectacular. I wonder if they have their original turrets.

Cheers
Peter

[cantankrs]

Originally Posted by Peter Walsh

There is a restored Grant at the Meandarra Anzac Museum and Emu Gully has a running Grant in their Air and Land Spectacular. I wonder if they have their original turrets.

The Meandarra M3 Medium has a real Grant turret but I don't know if it originally came off that hull - Rod Keys might be the best person to ask.

All this Sentinel and 17 pdr talk has really gone off-topic...
I'd like a Sentinel with twin short 25pdrs which is what they initially developed the short 25pdr for.

Alex

[Ganmain Tony]

Originally Posted by cantankrs

The Meandarra M3 Medium has a real Grant turret but I don't know if it originally came off that hull - Rod Keys might be the best person to ask.

All this Sentinel and 17 pdr talk has really gone off-topic...
I'd like a Sentinel with twin short 25pdrs which is what they initially developed the short 25pdr for.

Alex

Talking about variants in this hull in the Armour forum..... 'off topic' ???

I thought the twin 25 pounder concept was to test the ability of the turret and the hull of the Sentinels, to cope with the 17 pounder Alex.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.... I'm learning loads. As long as its not cheesing off Ryan..