WW2 - Canadian Ram Tank

[Cassiar]

Simply a variant of the US Sherman.

http://www.members.shaw.ca/intestine/ram/ah112.jpg

http://www.members.shaw.ca/intestine/ram/ah113.jpg

http://www.members.shaw.ca/intestine/ram/ah114.jpg

http://www.members.shaw.ca/intestine/ram/ah115.jpg

http://www.members.shaw.ca/intestine/ram/ah116.jpg

http://www.mapleleafup.org/vehicles/cac/images/ram_op1.jpg
Ram Observation Post tank advancing near Cintheaux, France, 8 August 1944.

http://www.canadianheritage.ca/images/large/21896.jpg
Assembling instrument panels for Ram tanks, Montreal, 1942.

[Otsoa]

iirc, the Ram was a variant of the M3 Grant, not a variant of a Sherman. The Sherman came after the Ram and was later adopted by the Canadian Armoured Regiments. Go here for more details: http://afvinteriors.hobbyvista.com/ram/ram1.html
http://afvdb.50megs.com/usa/m4sherman.html This page states that the M4 Sherman used the M 3's suspension, lower hull, and power train, hence the similar look between the Ram and Sherman.
http://www.junobeach.org/e/4/can-tac-arm-can-e.htm Another page for Canadian built tanks.

Wonderful pics btw Cassiar, many of which I have never seen before woot :D

[Cassiar]

iirc, the Ram was a variant of the M3 Grant, not a variant of a Sherman.

I always thought that the Ram II was an M4A5, but the Canadian A4's were the Ram replacement. Now I know that the Ram II was just a Ram I with a 6-pounder. That front end should have been a dead give-away that the Ram was an M3. Now I get it.