From Yeide " Tank Killers"

On 16th May (1944), Army Ground Forces had asked the ETO ( European Theater of Operations ) whether it wanted any of the new M36 tank destroyers under development by Ordnance. The M36 was essentially an M10 with a 90 mm antiaircraft gun mounted in a redesigned open-topped turret to perform the antitank mission. The ETO expressed no interest.

On 6th July, the American European Command cabled Army Ground Forces and requested that all M10 battalions be converted to the M36 and that no more M10 battalions be shipped to the ETO.

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