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Originally Posted by David Herbert
Those are T54E1 links in the photo above. Probably the most common of the WW2 steel chevron designs so entirely in keeping if not original to the tank.
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T54E1 tracks indeed, BOMB was running on a set of these in June 1945.
Not used a lot these days, most Sherman tanks are fitted with rubber tracks as otherwise they cannot be operated on public roads.
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"Original Toronto Star caption: D-Day veteran; this Canadian-built tank (sic) of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers was still in action at V-E-Day. After landing on a Normandy beach; it fought its way across northwestern France; Belgium; Holland and into Germany. It's still a real fighter"
Source: https://digitalarchive.tpl.ca/object...-sherbrooke-fu
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