Holly Roller - general appearance during wartime?

[Perry Kitson]

Jack,

Holy Roller landed on D-Day, covered 2,500 miles to V-E Day. At Apeldoorn, was hit by an A/T gun that damaged the track and suspension on the left side. Last action was at Godensholt, Germany. I will see what else I can dig up. At the last D-Day parade the regiment held, they interviewed the gunner, William Reed, who vividly remembered backing the tank up to a German casement on the afternoon of D-Day, hooking up pipes to the exhaust and sticking them into vents on the casement to gas out the occupants.

Perry

[Jack Geratic]

Perry, thanks for that - the first tidbit surely explains the different return roller type was a replacement due to combat damage.

regards,
Jack

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This query was for 'Sherbrooke' and 'Regiment' after a few attempts gave nil responses. The MIKAN number is the code I couldn't remember. I hope I was not too misleading or vague. Once you find the terms that work, keep going. However, author Hal Skaarup states the cataloguing is not as complete as we would hope, so persevere and see what turns up.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Not wanting to be pedantic, but the subject tank is not named "Holly Roller", but "Holy Roller", a Sherman III (M4A2) with census number CT 152655.
I visited this Sherman back in 2007 and determined its serial number is 7606 and it was built by the Fisher plant.

HTH,
Hanno

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