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For those of you who may not know, the Ram was a medium tank designed and built in Canada off the M3 Grant chassis but basically modified beyond all recognition.

The tank was built in two Marks, the I and II. There were many subvariants inside the Mark II production run of the Ram, as the Canadians were looking into selling off their stocks of tanks after the war ended. See, the big sorry problem with the Ram is that it was never able to be used in combat: Canadian Armoured Divisions trained with it in England but ended up being equipped with Shermans instead. The Rams were sold to Belgium (I believe?) after the war.

Here's a picture of the old girl, the Ram Mk. II in it's OP form. One of only two armed types (the other was flamethrower) that made it to Europe:






While the tank disappeared from history, one of it's variants didn't: the Kangaroo made an amazing impact on the Normandy Campaign. It was a modified turretless version of the Ram, able to carry more than a squad of riflemen into battle. Teamed with a large number of so-called "defrocked Priest" transports, the Canadians road into battle in what are now being understood as the world's first Armoured Personnel Carriers.


But the Ram itself, whether with it's original 6 pdr (57mm anti-tank gun) or with the British upgunned 75mm, never made it into the battlefield of Normandy or the Falaise Gap.

What if it had? How would it have fared?
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