Sherbrooke Fusiliers Tank BOMB

[Ed Storey]

I found these while flipping through my Maple Leaf newspaper collection - both are from 1945.

4 July, 1945 - 'Bomb' Went All the Way - The Maple Leaf copy.jpg 14 December, 1945 - They Couldn't Stop Her - The Maple Leaf copy.jpg

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Originally Posted by Ed Storey

I found these while flipping through my Maple Leaf newspaper collection - both are from 1945.

This is a new one to me!

BTW, Lt Garry Gould won an immediate MC on 26 Feb 45. He was a B Sqn officer. Bomb was a B Sqn tank. There is enough circumstantial information to suggest that he might have been crew commanding Bomb when he did it. There are two links on Wikipedia page regarding his narrative.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Excellent find, Ed!

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Originally Posted by Ed Storey

I found these while flipping through my Maple Leaf newspaper collection - both are from 1945.
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What exact date was this sideview image published? Calcar was fought towards in Feb and Mar 45.

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http://collections2.banq.qc.ca/jrn03...7-28_SUPP1.pdf

While we are finding and posting pictures of Bomb and the SFR, I found this clipping archived from the local Sherbrooke newspaper.

I've been reading Mark Zuehlke's book Holding Juno, and was fascinated by his recreation of the battle for Buron. Such as the extremely vulnerable flanks of the SFR's as they pressed south from the beachhead. His use of German information informative. For instance, for want of fuel a panzer division was not able to join the counterattack Meyer had to mount on 7 June. Those tanks would have threatened the landings immeasurably. As well, he frames the young SS grenadiers' anger and violence towards their North Nova Scotia Highlanders and Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment prisoners. I hadn't thought of the murders quite that way before.

[Ed Storey]

14 December, 1945.