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21-05-05, 09:47
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As a sidenote, in Italy, the Canadian and British divisions were ordered by Monty to switch fronts, east to west and vice versa over the mountains - rather than ship all the vehicles, they swapped - the Brits got all the nice nearly-new CMPs, the Canadians got stuck with all the clapped-out 7th AD leftovers from N. Africa.
And the Canadian 1Div had already lost half its trucks before it even got to Sicily thanks to German U-boats. I'd look up a citation for this, but it's late, I'm tired. Set me right if I'm wrong.
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