M24 Chaffee Light Tank 1943-85 (New Vanguard, Volume 77) by Steven J. Zaloga

By Steven J. Zaloga

The background folks mild tanks in the course of international conflict II is a chequered one. the sunshine Battalions folks Armored Divisions have been at the start jam-packed with M3A1 and M5 Stuart tanks, although, at the battlefields of North Africa it used to be realised that those have been disastrously lower than armoured and gunned, and a substitute, or the abandonment of sunshine tank doctrine, used to be desperately wanted. It wasn't till the previous couple of months of WWII that the M24 Chaffee got here into carrier and it used to be widely utilized in wrestle from the conflict of the Bulge to the ultimate campaigns in Germany. This publication will hint the historical past of this layout, its strive against list in global conflict II, its many variations, and its broad strive against checklist put up 1945.

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