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Canadian Army received 30 of 1,420 tanks built in Canada. Valentines were used for training purposes. Czechoslovakia. 11th Infantry Battalion repaired two Valentine wrecks in Tobruk. 1st Czechoslovak Independent Armoured Brigade Group received Valentines in spring 1943. These tanks were the first ones officially operated by the Czechoslovak ...
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Prior to the Second World War, British tank doctrine divided tanks into three categories: light tanks for reconnaissance, cruiser tanks to act as cavalry to exploit gaps in enemy lines and heavy tanks to support the infantry (also known as infantry tanks). In February 1938, Vickers submitted a proposal to the British War Office for an infantry tank...
The Infantry Tank Mark III, Valentine went on to become the most-produced British tank of the war, with 6,855 built in Britain and another 1,420 in Canada. The first Valentines came out in May 1940 and production continued until early 1944. In general terms, the tank weighed around 16 to 17 metric tonnes and had frontal armour up to 65 mm thick. It...
There were eleven marks of Valentines. The Mark I was powered by a gasoline engine and had a two-man turret mounting a 2-pounder tank gun and a Besa machine gun. Marks II to V saw the introduction of a diesel engine. The Mark III and V upgraded the turret to allow for three crew members including a loader, which allowed the commander to focus on ot...
The Valentine had several variants. These included the DD (Duplex Drive) “swimming” tank; the Observation Post variant for artillery spotting; a bridge layer, equipped with a 10-metre-long scissors bridge; and a dozer tank. Other variants produced in limited numbers included a mine flail and a fascine version to cross large ditches. Among experimen...
In 1941, production of Canadian Valentines began at the Canadian Pacific Railway’s Montreal Angus Shops. These vehicles used several North American-built parts and shared some components with the Canadian Ram tank. Around 1,390 Canadian Valentines were sent to Russia, along with 1,300 British ones. Canadian armoured units did not use Valentines in ...
The 30 Canadian Army Valentines were all supplied under contract CDLV 67. These tanks were assigned War Department registration numbers from CT-138916 to CT-138945. All were supplied as Mk.VI models with the provision for the Besa machine gun in the co-axial mounting and No.11 radio sets.
Apr 26, 2023 · Canadian-built tanks now had two names. Tanks with a GMC diesel and the BESA machinegun were called Valentine VI, and tanks built with the Browning machinegun were called Valentine VII. Later, when tanks received a number of improvements, the index changed to Valentine VIIA. This change was introduced starting with the 789th tank.
May 4, 2015 · As of November 1942, Angus Shops (Montreal, Canada) began shipping Canadian infantry tanks "Valentine VII" to the Soviet Union to fulfil the second order of the Soviet government. The serial numbers of these tanks start at #789 (War Department number 73592).
Canadian Pacific Railway constructed 788 Valentine tanks in its Angus shop in Montreal; its engine was built by General Motors. 5,200 tanks had been built at C.P. Angus and Montreal Locomotive Company shops by the end of the war.
Oct 21, 2020 · Canada is not known for its arms industry, but during WWII the nation pitched in a significant quantity of weapons. One example is the Valentine tank. 1420 units were built at the Angus Shops in Montreal, with the majority going to the Red Army. See how these Canadian tanks compared to their British counterparts in my latest article on Warspot ...
