Stopping the Panzers

[John McGillivray]

Originally Posted by Jon Skagfeld

I've just finished reading the book.

I wondered why the Canadians landed with American SP Priests, while the Americans landed with Canadian built Sextons?
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Jon, it was the British on Gold Beach who landed with the Sextons and not the Americans. The original Sexton I was built to fill a British order.
The Americans tried to land with 105mm guns firing from DUKWs, but due to high seas all but two were swamped and sunk well short of the beach.

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally Posted by John McGillivray

Jon, it was the British on Gold Beach who landed with the Sextons and not the Americans. The original Sexton I was built to fill a British order.
The Americans tried to land with 105mm guns firing from DUKWs, but due to high seas all but two were swamped and sunk well short of the beach.

You are right...I was wrong. Senior's moment.

[Roger Lucy]

Originally Posted by John McGillivray

The original Sexton I was built to fill a British order..

Actually the Sexton was developed to meet a March 1942 request from McNaughton for an SP for Canadian armoured divisions. When it was demonstrated in the UK in early 1943, the Brits were so impressed by it, that they dropped their order for 300 US T51s (M7 Priests armed with a 25-pdr) and placed an order with MLW for the same number of Sextons. See Canada's Pride page 115.
Roger