Cromwell I frontal turret armour

DRG · #1 June 23rd, 2008, 12:32 AM

OK, I had a closer look at the info in the Armour in Profile I have on the Cromwell and it says the...

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"Cromwell VII, VIII are mainly distinguished by extra armour plate fixed to the hull and turret front, nose and rear"

so it looks like those two should have turret front armour of 10 and not the 9 we have now.

Don

Cross · #2 June 23rd, 2008, 07:13 PM

Sounds good.

Thanks for research Don

CharlesM · #3 June 26th, 2008, 06:06 PM

Other sources include the later Armour in Profile on Cromwell and Comet, and David Fletcher and Richard Harley's Osprey New Vanguard # 104 on the Cromwell series. This, and an article appearing in Tankette many years ago emphasise the rather haphard upgrading of Centaurs and earlier Cromwells into later marks. Not all Cromwells in NW Europe were armoured to later Mk VII standards.

Let me know if you want anything further.