M10 wolverine - lend-lease and in-service dates

[Alexb83]

Does anyone have any resource that lists the dates for in-service deployment of the M10 3 Inc GMC with allied forces?

Production started september '42, but the earliest reference that I can find to field deployment is that they were 'newly delivered' to the US 1st Infantry Division at El Guettar in april-march of '43.

Can't seem to find any dates for delivery to the Brits, though they are evident in use in Italy at least.

 

[Alexb83]

Answered by own research:

First deployed during the Torch Landings.
First fired shots in anger at El Guettar.

Never really fulfilled the US expectation/doctrine for use /except/ at El Guettar where they soundly repulsed the 10th panzer division (not without losses).

Patton's school of thought was evidently closer to the British notion of 'the best way to beat a tank is a better tank' - whereas the overriding US school of thought was that tank destroyers were best, despite the evidence to the contrary.