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Old 31-01-21, 18:24
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Default Sherman's 1945 prices
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Originally Posted by MicS View Post
US$1,460 (1946) = $20,895.17 (2021)

See https://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?

Still cheap if in running condition...
https://www.militarytrader.com/milit...a-sherman-tank
Back in 1945 the cost of these was (ref. http://www.mapleleafup.nl/g104/cost.htm):
  • M4A2(76)HVSS/T66 $48,029
  • M4A2(76)HVSS/T80 $50,928

I guess it was cheaper to give them away for an adminstrative cost than to scrap them. It was the second time the Canadian army bought surplus tanks off the USA on the cheap.
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