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The Cromwell was one of the best in the line of ‘Cruiser’ tanks developed by Britain during WW2.  It was similar to the Centaur but had the Meteor engine - a detuned Merlin - nearly doubling it’s power output.

The Cromwell was one of the fastest tanks of the war - capable of 40 mph, but had to be restricted to 32 mph to save the suspension from damage.

The Cromwell was armed with 75 mm cannon and 2 x 7.62 mm machine guns.  It weighed 28 tons and had a crew of five.  The Mk VI had a 95 mm howitzer in place of the main gun.

This example is a Cromwell Mk IV of the 5th Polish Division 1944.
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The only polish unit that used Cromwell tanks during WWII was the 10th Mounted Rifle (Armoured Recon) Regiment of the 1st Polish Armoured Division (Western Front - France, Belgium, Holland, Germany - from August 1944 till May 1945). The 5th Polish Infantry Division was a part of the 2nd Polish Corps that fought on Italian Front from May 1944 till May 1945. As it was infantry division it had no tanks at all. Probably the 5th Polish Division has been mistaken for the Polish 5th Armoured Regiment - a part of the Polish 16th Armoured Brigade. This regiment began its formation process in March 1945 and in June 1945 it received some Cromwell tanks. Since the WWII ended in May 1945, the 5th PolArmReg was not formed. However, the serial number of the tank (not quite correct - according to the information I got, it should be T 189431 not T 1800431) shows that the tank belonged to 10th Mounted Rifle Regiment, i.e to the 1st Polish Armoured Division.