[15] The use of local GMC Detroit Diesel engines in Canadian production was a success and the engine was adopted for British production. A bulkhead separated the fighting compartment from the engine compartment. The driver sat on hull centre line, entering through either of two angled hatches over the seat, though there was an emergency exit hatch beneath his seat. Photo of Mark VI tank at, Crew inside a Valentine tank loading the 2-pounder gun. Soviet Supreme Command asked for its production until the end of the war. [1], There are several proposed explanations for the name Valentine. 2048x2048 textures included: -Color maps -psd (AO, decals on separated layers, specular on Alpha channel) 2k,1k (wheels) -Normal maps 2k,1k Texture designed for scaling - great for mobile games. Another weakness was the small crew compartment and the two-man turret. Due to a lack of cruisers, it was issued to armoured regiments in the UK from mid-1941. In October 2012, a Valentine Mk IX tank that fell through ice while crossing a river in western Poland during the Soviet Army's march to Berlin was recovered. The "most prosaic" explanation according to David Fletcher is that it was just an in-house codeword of Vickers with no other significance. [15] They formed the main Commonwealth export to the Soviet Union under lend-lease. The first Valentines used a petrol engine and the diesel engine which distinguished the Mark II—at the time Tank Infantry Mark III*— from the Mark I, was based on the AEC Comet, a commercial road vehicle engine. A number of DD Valentines that sank during training lie off the British coast; several have been located and are regularly visited by recreational divers. The Tank, Infantry, Mk III, Valentine was an infantry tank produced in the United Kingdom during the Second World War. [18], The Valentine shared the common weakness of the British tanks of the period, its 2-pounder gun lacked high-explosive (anti-personnel) ammunition and soon became outdated as an anti-tank weapon. The development team tried to match the lower weight of a cruiser tank, allowing the suspension and transmission parts of the A10 heavy cruiser to be used, with the greater armour of an infantry tank. Low Poly model of American WW2 Valentine Mk III Infantry Tank. The first tanks had a two-man turret, the gunner on the left of the gun and the commander acting also as the loader on the right. Alle Versionen der frühen Kriegsjahre waren mit einer 2-Pfünder-Kanone Kaliber 40 mm und einem 7,92-mm-MG bewaffnet. [37] A Valentine built by Canadian Pacific resides at the Base Borden Military Museum in Barrie, Ontario. The trials were successful and the vehicle was rushed into production as "Tank, Infantry, Mark III"; no pilot models were required as much of the mechanics had been proven on the A10 and it entered service from July 1941. The engine, clutch and gearbox were bolted together to form a single unit. Low Poly model of American WW2 Valentine Mk III Infantry Tank. [24], Valentine I (Tank, Infantry, Mk III): (308), Valentine II (Tank, Infantry, Mk III*): (700), Valentine with 6-pounder anti-tank mounting, Valentine flame-thrower (gas-operated equipment), Valentine flame-thrower (cordite-operated equipment), Flame mortar fitted to Valentine tank chassis, firing phosphorus bombs, Valentine DD tank with screen lowered, 1944, Valentine Bridgelayer (without bridge) Overloon War Museum, 1987, Valentine Bridgelayer, Kubinka Tank Museum, 2009, Valentine Cavalry Tank Museum, Ahmednagar, 2014, Valentine MK IX at the Bovington Tank museum, 2009. The Cavalry Tank Museum Ahmednagar, India. A Valentine in North Africa, carrying infantry from a Scottish regiment. 838, built May 1943, was a Lend-Lease tank shipped to the Soviet Union. Although versions with the 6-pounder and then with the Ordnance QF 75 mm gun were developed, by the time they were available in significant numbers, better tanks had reached the battlefield. In the war in the Pacific, 25 Valentine Mk III and nine Valentine Mk IIICS tanks were employed by the 3rd New Zealand Division in the south-west Pacific campaign. 19, which included crew communications with long and short range networks. 11 with a tannoy for the crew; later tanks had Wireless Set No. [11], Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage and Wagon—an associate company of Vickers—and Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (BRCW) were contracted to produce the Valentine. The star in the name denoted a modification to the original design, in this case the engine change. [1] The many variants included riveted and welded construction, petrol and diesel engines and a progressive increase in armament. The Canadians also opened a production line and built 1420 vehicles nearly all of which were sent to Russia.

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