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The Tank, Cruiser, Ram was a cruiser tank designed and built by Canada in the Second World War, based on the U.S. M3 Medium tank chassis. Due to standardization on the American Sherman tank for frontline units, it was used exclusively for training purposes and was never used in combat as a gun tank.
U.S.-built, issued on a very large scale. The M4A2 was the standard medium tank in the Canadian Army during WWII, replacing the Ram tank, and known by its British designation as the Sherman III. Postwar, limited numbers remained in Army Reserve service and were used for training during until replaced by the Canadian version of the M4A3E8.
A Kangaroo was a Canadian armoured personnel carrier (APC) during the Second World War which was created by converting a tank chassis. Kangaroos were created as an expedient measure "in the field" by the Canadian Army, and were so successful that they were used by other Commonwealth forces, including the British Army.
Infantry of the 53rd (Welsh) Division in a Ram Kangaroo on the outskirts of Ochtrup, Germany, 3 April 1945. The decision to convert redundant tanks into personnel carriers was inspired by Allied experiences during the D-Day landings, where British and Canadian forces experienced much lower casualty rates by leading attacks on German lines with armour than did the Americans, who led with an ...
Canadian armoured regiments split their heritage between two primary sources. The first being the cavalry corps, from which many armoured regiments were created and in fact the first "armoured" regiments were titled "mechanized cavalry" regiments, and the second being the tank corps (which formerly belonged to first the infantry and then the machine gun corps).
After the fall of France, it was decided the nascent Canadian armoured divisions would be equipped by tanks produced in Canada.The result was the Ram cruiser tank, based on the chassis and running gear of the US M3 Lee medium tank; Rams were produced by the Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) from 1941 to 1943.
IS-1 "Joseph Stalin" heavy tank (107, converted to IS-2 before issuing; Soviet Union) IS-2 heavy tank (3,854; Soviet Union) IS-3 heavy tank (2,311 tanks produced until mid 1946, probably never used in combat during World War II; Soviet Union) ISU-122 heavy self-propelled gun (2,380; Soviet Union) ISU-152 heavy self-propelled gun (3,242; Soviet ...
Canada had set up to produce the Ram tank using the M3 chassis and Grizzly (a copy of the M4) to complement US medium tank production; when Sherman production in the US expanded and supply was no longer a problem, it was decided in 1943 to switch the Canadian production lines to produce the Sexton to give the British Army a mobile artillery gun ...