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Whilst browsing trough the online archives of the city of leeuwarden, I came across a picture of 105mm shermans with some sort of registration codes on the transmission cover:
KX 1782 KX 1787 Can someone tell me what these markings mean? This is the address of the site: http://hcl.pictura-dp.nl/component/o...6/lang,nl_NL/? Type in "bevrijding" The picture that I mean is one the 3rd page Wim
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Wim,
The KX-series registration numbers were used for 105-mm howitzer Sherman tanks in use with the Dutch Army after WW2 - see Sherman Encyclopedia -> The Netherlands. Seems the archive has misplaced them in the WW2 section! Hanno
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I found one photo of what I think is a Firefly called "Alec" with an AoS of 45.
Who would the reconnaissance regiment have been at this time? Also a photo of an M8 Greyhound. Sadly no markings are visible though. Cheers Kevin |
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Hello Mark,
Thanks for the ID. That's another gap filled. It is a shame that there were no visible markings on the M8 Greyhound. Cheers Kevin |
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Hanno
Thanks for the reply. I remembered from somewhere that the Canadians were at some point in 1944/45 fitted out with some m4 105mm shermans and thought that these might be the ones but indeed the markings are those of the Dutch army's license plates. Wim
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