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At the beginning of World War 2 in 1941, Canada found itself in the same position as Australia. They did not have much of an armored corps or the industrial facilities to produce and support one. This meant they had to rely on the British to supply them with armored vehicles. The War in the Atlantic, however, was not going well and, in these early years of the War, the British Army needed every tank they could produce for their own use.
In 1942, a British Tank mission visited the United States and Canada. The goal of the visit was to standardize the fighting vehicles produced and used by the British, the United States and Canada. They agreed that the American Medium Tank M4, famously known as Sherman, would be most suitable for the role. During a later meeting, it was agreed that Canadian manufacturing should be used to produce a version of the M4A1 - the cast-hull Sherman. The proposed name was the Buffalo, but it was later changed to a Canadian fighting animal; the Grizzly, the bear native to North America.
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An article by Matthe Jussaume
Narrated by Monty
Edited by Pavel Alexe
Sound edited by Gabe

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@karlthomson8686 3 года назад

"At the beginning of World War 2 in 1941, Canada found itself in the same position as Australia" This statement is slightly off since the beginning of WW2 for Canada, Australia, and the rest of the British Commonwealth was September, 1939.

@EdgarStyles1234 3 года назад

Yeah honestly...

@alfnoakes392 3 года назад

Precisely. When discussing WW2 with Americans I always make a point of using the term " 1939-45 War".

@matthewwadwell6100 3 года назад

LOL - Yeah, I imagine a Chinese person (where the war started in 1937) talking about WW2 would confuse Americans......

@rickwightman2366 2 года назад

Which is odd given the found a narrator with a UK accent(?)

@michaellippmann4474 2 года назад

Yep...I read that statement and an American slant to the war of course!!! Oversight I am sure....

@chillywilly883 2 года назад

Beginning of ww2 in 1941?. Odd, we were fighting it since ‘39.

@krisguntner4805 3 года назад

0:17 Um NO,Canada's industrial capacity before ww2 was CONSIDERABLE with the ability to MASS PRODUCE via assembly line manufacturing car's,trucks,PLANES,etc...there were a MILLION vehicles made by 1930 ALONE we had NO problem building ANY heavy vehicle INCLUDING 348 ten thousand ton vessels and WE built all the arms the u.k needed after they failed at dunkirk producing 800,000 transports,50,000 tanks,etc... with 38% of canada's total war production going to the u.k. Canada was LITERALLY the 4th most powerful country in the world at the end of the war.

@EdgarStyles1234 3 года назад

Yet look at us now, years of socialism have turned us into a laughing stock

@PsychoMan 3 года назад

@@EdgarStyles1234 no my friend, Canada is much better than those imperialist that you call neighbor

@krisguntner4805 3 года назад

@@EdgarStyles1234 Americans have been going on and on about "socialist canada"(despite REPEATED polls showing we are MORE conservative then they are)for decades yet THEY are the ones on the verge of collapse due to leftists in just SIXTH MONTHS. So who's laughing now?

@luvr381 3 года назад

@@krisguntner4805 Is your shift key acting up?

@krisguntner4805 3 года назад

@@luvr381 Your word for today is EMPHASIS. You're welcome.

@Inlinetodie 2 года назад

Some of the tanks they've built in the last decade, are absolutely terrifying.

@captainfactoid3867 3 года назад

I want this man to narrate my life

@tonyocoffey5175 2 года назад

The opening segment graphic shows stylized components of the Maple Leaf and red band from Canada’s flag. The leaf and bars shown weren’t in use until the modern Canadian flag was introduced in the mid-1960’s which was the first time the leaf was incorporated into the Canadian flag. During WW I & II, uniform badges bore a maple leaf of a different design entirely.

@Gyrono Год назад

Actually, a maple leaf was part of the Candian flag pre-1960s, as the coat of arms on the Red Ensign flag had the tri-branched maple leaf on the bottom and the army and air force flags during WW2 both had maple leaves: the army had the tri-branched maple leaf while the air force had single maple similar to the one on the modern national flag albeit with a more realistic outline instead of the stylized modern outline.

@peterwright4647 2 года назад

The beginning of WW II was NOT 1941!!!! FFS. Canada entered the war in 1939! Get your basic facts right.

@abouttime5000 2 года назад

If you think about the mobilization of all countries in a war that went from 1939-45. Pretty amazing the weaponry advancements and construction around the world in that time frame. Many countries began the war with bi-planes.

@BatCaveOz 2 года назад

WW2 definitely didn't begin in 1941.

@vmitchinson 2 года назад

CANADA was in the war II in 1939, within hours of Britian declaring war.

@wombatwilly1002 2 года назад

September 3rd.

@goldbug7127 2 года назад

Actually guys, Canada declared war on Germany on September 10th, mostly to point out to the world that we were independent of Britain. But, we declared war on Japan December 7th, a full day before America.

@FrankJmClarke 8 месяцев назад

The first 3D-printed rifle was called the Grizzly, since the designer's grandfather was a Canadian tanker in WWII.

@Grummsh00 2 года назад

According to a few sources including Wikipedia one Skink actually did see combat where it was considered a useful tool. Although there were no planes to shoot down it was devastating against infantry. By using HEIT ammo, it would set the buildings enemy troops were dug into on fire, thus forcing them out into the open and sometimes even to surrender. It did, however, get bogged down a few times.

@vothbetilia4862 2 года назад

It'd probably be a effective tank killer too, with its four guns.

@RS-lw1hz 3 года назад

No Grizzly tanks were used in combat during the Portuguese Colonial War. They preferred lighter vehicles for the tank role in the jungle, like M24 Chaffee's and Panhard EBR's.

@csnocke5 3 года назад

Watch out world when USA Canada and England work together!

@gusgone4527 2 года назад

A three man turret at some stage morphed into a "freeman" turret. Clever.

@6th_Army 2 года назад

"The M4 was deemed superior to the RAM" Good luck convincing the Germans. They didn't get the memo.

@mccoobs 2 года назад

Canada entered WWII on 10 September 1939... NOT 1941. I'm seeing a lot of shit research in this video.

@avroarchitect1793 2 года назад

indeed both the tanks are in CFB Borden in the Worthington tank park, he misspelled Borden as Boden the second time

@avroarchitect1793 2 года назад

also the Skink did see combat but since air superiority was total by the time it landed in France we ended up using it against light armour and germans in buildings to great effect

@pogchimp3783 Год назад

I could listen to this guy talk for hours

@vaclav_fejt 3 года назад

I must say, excellent narrator. And I love those polandballs.

@gusgone4527 2 года назад

He pronounces th as f. It's very off putting. I managed 5 mins.

@vaclav_fejt 2 года назад

@@gusgone4527 Well...still better than "s". I don't mind the cockney "f" either.

@gusgone4527 2 года назад

@@vaclav_fejt Your tolerance threshold is lower than mine.

@nickdanger3802 2 года назад

Montreal Locomotive Works During the early 20th century the newly formed American Locomotive Company (Alco) acquired MLW's predecessor as a means of opening new possibilities in the Canadian market.

@LmgWarThunder 3 года назад

I'm sorry but I'm a giggling mess, can someone explain what's meant by "69 inches metric" lol

@TanksEncyclopediaYT 3 года назад

"A metric inch is a nickname for a preferred 1⁄4 subdivision of an ISO 2848 basic module, or 1⁄12 of a metric foot measuring 25 millimetres (0.984 in). A metric inch is 0.4 millimetres (0.016 in) shorter than an inch, since the inch is defined as 25.4 millimetres."

@LmgWarThunder 3 года назад

@@TanksEncyclopediaYT If y'all gonna quote wikipedia, at least cite your sources lol

@korbetthein3072 3 года назад

@@TanksEncyclopediaYT wow! I didn't know that was a thing! Definitely makes sense.

@TanksEncyclopediaYT 3 года назад

You wanted us to explain what a metric inch is. We did. Any further problems?

@LmgWarThunder 3 года назад

@@TanksEncyclopediaYT This isn't a problem. Your explanation of a metric inch is taken off of Wikipedia, which is fine, I just found it funny is all lol

@trentshepherd8736 2 года назад

Canada started the war in 1939 not 1941.

@allanloiselle2052 2 года назад

Careful how you phrase that, Trent. Germany started the war. Canada joined in 39

@space4166 Год назад

Canada invaded Poland and Germany and Italy declared war on the British commonwealth because Germany and Poland had an alliance Then Germany felled in 1940 and Italy. but then usa bombed Tokyo then japan surrender . Then 1945 Cold War started between uk and usa

@vaclav_fejt 3 года назад

I might speak for many a War Thunder player when I say they should add the Skink. I say it'd be an excellent SPAAG somewhere at 5.7 - 6.7 battle rating. Something like a Kugelblitz.

@prestonang8216 3 года назад

But it has .50’s, i’d say 3.7 or 4.0

@vaclav_fejt 3 года назад

@@prestonang8216 It doesn't, it had 20mm's and it was fully armoured, so no.

@RedXlV 3 года назад

@@prestonang8216 It has 20mm Polstens, which fire the same ammo and have the same ROF as the 20mm Oerlikon. The Skink would be like the Wirbelwind, except with armor.

@prestonang8216 3 года назад

Wait shit i was thinking of the wrong tank sorry

@BobSmith-dk8nw 3 года назад

Thanks. That was interesting. .

@ThumperE23 Год назад

The CDP Track was not original to the Grizzly Mk1, nor was the heavy-duty suspension units; they came into production with the Sexton SPG and were retrofitted into the Grizzly. The Grizzly upper hull was cast in the US in the same foundry as US M4A1s, General Casting I believe is their name, that's what the G on the hull stands for. Many Grizzly's that have survived have been remade as M4A1s, using more common parts. Also, the major difference was there was a different hull bottom configuration.

@ThumperE23 Год назад

@Will Rose okay, it was a good read, but maybe I missed something?

@pukalo 3 года назад

are you able to do a video on the Ram cruiser tank?

@wombatwilly1002 2 года назад

Thanks! Knew about the Grizzly but not this much detail..:)

@themythmaker1248 Год назад

It's just a shame that so much of the detail in this video is wrong.

@sergeantschlumpf6368 8 месяцев назад

The Sexton II & I, were based on the Grizzly & Ram II respectively.

@davidcarr7436 2 года назад

My dad was stationed at Borden and my uncle trained there.

@alexstewart9068 2 года назад

WW2 started in 1941? Interesting. Lol

@lunarmodule6419 2 года назад

For some yes...

@alexstewart9068 2 года назад

@@lunarmodule6419 1939 for Canada. 1941 for the United States.

@laytonletendre 2 года назад

Nothing counts unless America says..

@Stirmaction 2 года назад

I came here to say that!

@blasekiller9733 2 года назад

They fixed it in the video now, weird how this slipped past, normally these kind of screw ups dont get past editing.

@sergeantschlumpf6368 8 месяцев назад

10:16 I really like this version too!!! It should be in WOT!!! Imagine the rate of fire in WOT!😁

@statelyelms 2 года назад

Might want to re-record that first bit.. saying "at the beginning of World War 2 in 1941" really makes it sound as if you think the war began in 1941. Maybe "during the early years of World War 2, in 1941"?

@blasekiller9733 2 года назад

They fixed it, somehow that fuck up got past editing

@dataexpunged331 Год назад

Anyone else think that the way he talks he sounds a little like David Attenborough but for tanks

@LmgWarThunder 3 года назад

People think Americans are dumb for using imperial but at least we're not making up stuff like the metric inch lmao

@TanksEncyclopediaYT 3 года назад

We already explained to you what a metric inch is.

@LmgWarThunder 3 года назад

@@TanksEncyclopediaYT This one isn't about you lol this is in general. This is why I made it separate lol

@TanksEncyclopediaYT 3 года назад

All units of measurement are arbitrary and made up. It just so happens that metric ones actually make more sense (hence almost the entirety of the world using them). Why hybrids exist, that beats us.

@vaclav_fejt 3 года назад

@@TanksEncyclopediaYT The metric quintal (1q = 100 kg) is not a bad unit, though.

@DaveGIS123 2 года назад

"I says the metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!" - Abe Simpson ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z5-s-4KPtD8.html

@timl9870 2 года назад

WW2 started for Canada in Sep 1939, who are you people???

@brynhartlen 2 года назад

This was a long war, if you break the war into three with a beginning, middle and end, this makes total sense. From 1939 to mid 1941 was the German expansion, then from 1941 to mid 1944 was the "back and forth" for lack of a better term, and then from mid 1944 to late 1945 closed out the war. This is obviously a very simplified breakdown of a complex war, but this is what I thought of when I heard "the beginning".

@FIORGOBASAUDEAMUS 7 месяцев назад

Grizzly is on the CFB Borden. Not outside

@sherriemacnaull1878 2 года назад

The beginning of World War 2 in Canada was in 1939, 2yrs. and 3 mos. before the beginning of World War 2 in Dec. 1941 for the U.S. ...

@nickdanger3802 2 года назад

By December 41 Britain had received one billion USD in Lend Lease. In Jan 42 Canada made the Billion Dollar Gift (0.9 B USD).

@NoName-sb9tp 3 года назад

I felt like someone take the Fallout's series narrator and put him here

@Khalifrio 3 года назад

Oh, I like this narrator a lot. He doesn't try to turn his presentation into some sort of comedy show but keeps it professional all the way.

@sergeantschlumpf6368 8 месяцев назад

12:50 I’ve heard that before. It seems h fair & possibly disgraceful. It makes people almost forget about the parts Canada played in manufacturing for WW2.

@PsychoMan 3 года назад

Most of those grizzly just ended up in a scrap yard in the 90s, and what is left are just rusting out It's a bloody shame tbh. No grizzly were used in Africa, only m5 Stuarts were used I think, and they weren't really needed because the only Guiné received a few T34 and most combatents were armed with rpg so no reason to lose Armour.

@nonokayakjack 2 года назад

You might want to inform all the countries involved that everything from 1939 to 1941 wasn't actually a war.

@TK-11538 2 года назад

What does “60 inches metric” mean?

@TanksEncyclopediaYT 2 года назад

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_2848

@Gdsm9 2 года назад

"Inches metric"?

@Panzermeister36 2 года назад

There are imperial and metric inches, yes, The imperial inch is based on the foot (1/12 of a foot), while the metric inch is based on the meter (2.54 cm). They're effectively the same, but not exactly.

@abouttime5000 2 года назад

So many documentaries called the Sherman a death chamber. The armour plating could not withstand a panzer or tiger impact and the occupants died a horrible death.

@jjock3239 2 года назад

Actually , the Shermans were most often referred to as Tommy Cookers or Ronson (lights first time every time). This was because, in the early Shermans, the ammunition was stored up high, and if a AP round entered the tank through the hull or the turret, it would set off the ammo.

@harmdallmeyer6449 2 года назад

Shermans actually were the most survivable tank of the War.

@kingoghearts1 2 года назад

Maybe WW2 started for the Americans at the end of 1941 with Pearl Harbor . But for the rest of us the war started in 1939. Interesting fact is that it was Germany that declared war on the U.S.A. not the other way around .

@richyfletcher273 2 года назад

ww2 started in 1939... poor opening

@Tekz12 2 года назад

I think you meant to spell Borden, not Boden.

@SomeGuy-hd4cn 2 года назад

The turrent ring was 68 inches, metric in diameter. What? The? Hell?

@TanksEncyclopediaYT 2 года назад

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_2848

@JosipRadnik1 Год назад

excuse me but.... what is 69 inches METRIC in diameter? Either its metric (meters and centimeters) or imperial (feet and inches) - so how can it be 69 inches metric? I am confused 😵‍💫

@TanksEncyclopediaYT Год назад

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_2848#Metric_inch

@goldbug7127 2 года назад

Don't you love how a British, snooty accent makes any drivel sound indisputable.This 'program' would make you think that Canada made a couple thousand tanks at the end of the war that nobody used. In fact, by 1942, (one month after this guy thinks WWII started), Canada had become the fourth largest producer of arms and munitions in the world. Fourth in a club that included Britain, Germany, Japan, USA and the USSR. (reference "The Canadians at War" pub. 1969) Most important, Canada made war profiteering illegal and impossible. Also, we didn't go into debt to do it.

@goldbug7127 2 года назад

I forgot Italy, too.

@otakunthevegan4206 3 года назад

Now it's our turn!

@coldxmlpromax9550 3 года назад

@LongWarEnjoyer 2 года назад

🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

@LastThree804 2 года назад

Forgets to google world war two when talking about world war two.

@holycow131 2 года назад

when the war started in 1941? Sure you don't mean 1939?

@rb239rtr 2 года назад

@@Roarmeister2 that attack was december 1941

@Roarmeister2 2 года назад

@@rb239rtr Considering that you know nothing, even that guess is way off.

@rb239rtr 2 года назад

@@Roarmeister2 About 87,100,000 results (0.84 seconds) December 18, 1941 Japanese troops land in Hong Kong on December 18, 1941, and slaughter ensues. A week of air raids over Hong Kong, a British crown colony, was followed up on December 17 with a visit paid by Japanese envoys to Sir Mark Young, the British governor of Hong Kong. Japan invades Hong Kong - HISTORY

@butchrussell7047 2 года назад

@kansascityshuffle8526 2 года назад

What is 60 inches metric?

@gord120 2 года назад

152.4 Centimetres

@brynhartlen 2 года назад

A metric inch is 25mm, so 60 inches metric is 25 x 60 = 1500mm. An actual inch in 25.4mm, so the conversion is 25.4 x 60 = 1524mm. A difference of 24mm, almost 1".

@plomaturbo 3 года назад

Yeah sorry no1 uses metric inches

@LmgWarThunder 3 года назад

ISO 2848, apparently it is a real thing lol

@LmgWarThunder 3 года назад

Although you may be on to something as I can't find any reference online to the metric inch before 1982 and if I've met enough Americans (I live in America) I kinda doubt Americans designed a whole tank 2.6mm smaller (design spec) in diameter to meet a british preference for metric measurements

@plomaturbo 3 года назад

@@LmgWarThunder yeah it might be a thing but no1 actually uses it in any practical way

@pavelalexe9254 3 года назад

Yes. A lot do. Its standard unit within construction or industrial design

@LmgWarThunder 3 года назад

@@pavelalexe9254 do you know where I can learn about the history of units like the metric inch?

@mr.gunzaku437 3 года назад

The M4 Sherman is the best overall tank of World War Two.

@scallywag6768 2 года назад

It was certainly not the best. There were many more Sherman's than other tanks and that was their strength as well as their speed. It is commonly accepted the best alround tank of WW2 is the Russian T34.

@rogereatock9582 2 года назад

Not even close….T34 was far superior…arguably the best was the Panther however later German tanks suffered from reliability issus

@MrDecelles Год назад

@@rogereatock9582 depends on the metrics. Shermans had the ability to keep working and always had more available units available at the start of an operation.

@paspax 2 года назад

Inches metric??? LOL.

@TanksEncyclopediaYT 2 года назад

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_2848

@paspax 2 года назад

@@TanksEncyclopediaYT .. Totally redundant. Why would they not just use metric FFFS.

@guythatpaysforyourhandouts2478 2 года назад

The metric inch came about when Britain was converting over to the metric system and they just rounded the inch down to 25 cm just so people would have a idea how big something was at the time. If you said a cm to someone in Britain or in north America at the time they wouldn't of had a clue what they were talking about. Now why in gods name are they using it here who knows.

@CZ350tuner 2 года назад

In the UK, we still use both imperial & metric measurements in parallel, able to interchange between either. 4.461 litres = 1 imperial gallon. 1 metre = 39 & 5/8th inches. 1.59 kilometres = 1 imperial mile. 159 KPH = 100 MPH.