M4A4 Sherman VC Firefly with deadly 17-pdr guns*
were used by Polish 1st Armoured Division, fighting*
in Western Europe in 1944 - in France, Belgium and*
the Netherlands. *
It is not clear if they were kept after November*
1944, when the division was rearmed with Sherman IIA*
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M4 Sherman IC Firefly were also given to the 2nd*
Armoured Brigade, fighting in Italy, from January*
1945.*
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