Sherman "Calliope"

[ddmckee54]

That's a nice looking Sherman with a Clalliope mounted on it.

It was my understanding the the Calliope only used the gun barrel for support, they couldn't elevate the Calliope by lifting the barrel. From what I've read that was a big complaint from the tank crews that had the Calliope mounted on their tank. If they needed to use the big gun at a different elevation, they had to get out and disconnect the link to the Calliope. Not exactly a good thing if you needed the gun NOW.

You can always say you're testing a late-war prototype that would have fixed that issue.