#armoured division

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Cruiser Tank Mk.IIA (A10) (1st. Armored Division)

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A US N-18 of the 306th Anti-tank Company, 77th Division fires at enemy lines - Shuri, Okinawa, April 1945

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Major-General Gerald Lloyd-Verney, General Officer Commanding (GOC) 7th Armoured Division, enters Ghent in his armoured Staghound car. September 8th, 1944.

Original photo by Sgt. Johnson, No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit, colourised by Richard James Molloy.

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“Tank Troopers Drive Harder, Fight Fiercer,” Kingston Whig-Standard. June 11, 1942. Page 14. ---- TORONTO, June 11 — (CP)— Strength, virility, and resourcefulness are outstanding characteristics of Canada's tank troopers overseas. 

Ross Munro, Canadian Press War Correspondent with the Canadian Army Overseas has made a vivid sketch of these doughty warriors in “Sansom's Rough Riders," an article in the current issue of Liberty. 

Munro, who has spent two years in Britain with soldiers of the Dominion, says the typical Canadian tank trooper is a "sturdy, chunky youth who fits well into the turret... a grinning grimy warrior with a flourish and a swagger, and death in every gun in the turret... a Commando in armored plating.” 

Soldiers of the Canadian division are drawn from every section of life in the Dominion and form the elite of the mechanized army. The writer describes tank fighters as men who want to drive harder and fight fiercer than anyone else in the division. 

Maj-Gen Ernest W. Sansom, commander of Canada's armored division, is depicted as a man who "looks and acts like a man among men.” At 51, he has been a soldier practically all his life and served with distinction in the First Great War. 

He heads the youngest group of officers in the Canadian Army. Few officers at divisional and brigade headquarters are more than 40 and most of them are in their early 30’s.

Have New Ideas Ross Munro, at 28, has spent much time with tank squadrons, but he says he feels "like a creaking veteran when some kidding subaltern wisecracks: ‘You’re far too old for this tank racket.” 

As might be expected these young men have developed a lot of ideal of their own in regard to tank fighting and the Canadian writer deals humorously with their violations of the accepted practice In th very modern branch of warfare.

In five years with The Canadian Press, Ross Munro worked in Toronto, New York, Washington, and Ottawa before going overseas. He crossed the Atlantic with the flotilla of United States destroyers which were traded to Britain and was the only war correspondent with the Canadian British and Norwegian troops in the raid on Spitsbergen.

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time to look at an US Army Armored Division Organization and Structure. In this case I choose the “light” armored Division, which was the most common in World War 2 and “light” doesn’t refer to the equipment, the 2 “heavy” ones just had more men & units.

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Treat 'Em Rough!