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From: vaivads@hobbit.gandalf.ca (Vic Vaivads)
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Subject: Re: What's an "I" tank?
Keywords: 50th Anniversary of the Rats of Tobruk
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.033020.22844@amd.com>
Date: 17 Apr 91 12:54:09 GMT
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From: vaivads@hobbit.gandalf.ca (Vic Vaivads)


In <1991Apr17.055715.14043@amd.com> wbt@cbema.att.com (William B Thacker)
writes:
>Valentines were also built in Canada and exported to the USSR. 
>  [ stuff deleted ]
>The timing is also interesting; a Valentine was recently recovered from a
>Ukranian bog, where it had been well preserved.  It was aquired by the
>Canadian Pacific Railroad (its manufacturer), which restored it and 
>donated it to a museum (in Britain, I believe).

Well, not quite.  I do volunteer work for the Canadian War Museum, and
can clarify this a bit.  The Canadian built Valentine was to be acquired
by Canadian Pacific from the Ukranian village which pulled it out of the
bog.  However, there were some snags and the deal has not yet been completed.
Canadian Pacific in turn was going to donate the Valentine to the Canadian
War Museum in Ottawa.  These Valentines were built by the Montreal Locomotive
Works. 

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