| What makes you think it's a Lee, Owen?
The only difference between the Lee and the Grant was the turret. ARV's had their own smaller fixed turrets with dummy gun tubes and attachments for boom jibs and the like. So without it's original turret it would be very hard to tell the two tanks apart.
Anyhoo, my favourite ex Grant conversion was the M3 command tank. False superstructure fitted with extra comms equipment and a dummy gun in a large turret to make it mingle in better with the M4 Shermans that were replacing them. The roomier M3's were much liked for the role and commanders were reluctant to give them up.
Pictures from Hunnicutt.
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Last edited by Bodston; 09-10-2007 at 12:11 PM.
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