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jtrowbridge5 · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 234

it belonged to 536th ord.hm.co seventh army I n luneville [click on photo]
dennis

J.McGillivray · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 149

Roofs were also sometimes added to Canadian M-10s.

The first photo (detail from PA-116525) shows a 3Ã¢â‚¬Â? M-10 during Operation Tractable near Bretteville-le-Rabet, France, 14 August 1944.

The second photo (PA-113687) shows a 17pdr M-10 on the Blackfriars Bridge across the Rhine River, Rees, Germany, 30 March 1945.

J.McGillivray · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 149

Some additional info from the Ã¢â‚¬Å“Gunners of CanadaÃ¢â‚¬Â? Vol II. During the preparations for Operation Totalize the M-10s of the two SP Btys of the 6th A/t Regt were fitted with armoured roofs.

(p311) Ã¢â‚¬Å“The M-10's of the two batteries thus employed (the 56th Anti-Tank Battery with the 2nd Canadian Division, and the 33rd with the 51st Division) had been given extra protection for the gun detachments by welding on a lid of armour-plate to prevent mortar bombs from entering the fighting compartments. The lids were constructed with a movable flap which could be folded back to give the No. 1 full view when required; when down it afforded complete protection from anything except an artillery shell.Ã¢â‚¬Â?

mike_Duplessis · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 236

I recently read some mention of U.S. M10s getting locally-made overhead protection while they were assigned to the (nearly impossible) task of infantry support during the Hurtgen forest battles too. There was a nice AFV News article on the topic of M10 roof armor several years ago, including drawings - I want to say it was written by Steve Zaloga but don't trust me on that. Not near my references at the moment.

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claude_GILLONO · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 25, 2006 Posts: 80

IIRC, there was a common mod adding a roof in 6th Army group TD units (7th Army and 1st Free French Army) and some other units in 12th Army Group might well have devised a local add-on too.
HTH