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The Marmon-Herrington Combat Tank Light Series were a series of American light tanks/tankettes that were produced for the export market at the start of the Second World War. The CTL-3 had a crew of two and was armed with two .30 cal (7.62 mm) M1919 machine guns and one .50 cal (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine gun. They were originally designed to ...
Marmon-Herrington was founded in 1931 by Walter C. Marmon and Arthur W. Herrington as a successor to the Marmon Motor Car Company, a maker of high-quality, costly automobiles from 1902 to 1933. [3] By the early 1930s, the U.S. economy had taken a severe downturn, and with the onset of the Great Depression , the market for prestigious luxury ...
Marmon-Herrington CTLS tanks (a CTLS-4TAC in the foreground and a CTLS-4TAY in the background) in Alaska, summer of 1942. The Marmon-Herrington combat tank light (CTL) was a US light tank produced for the export market at the start of the Second World War. The CTL-3 had a crew of two and was armed with three M1919 Browning machine guns. [13]
The design also featured wider tracks and torsion bar suspension. It had relatively low silhouette and a three-man turret. It had relatively low silhouette and a three-man turret. In mid-October the first pilot vehicle was delivered and production began in 1944 under the designation light tank M24 ; 4,730 were produced by the time production ...
The M22 Locust, officially Light Tank (Airborne), M22, was an American-designed airborne light tank which was produced during World War II.The Locust began development in 1941 after the British War Office requested that the American government design a purpose-built airborne light tank which could be transported by glider into battle to support British airborne forces.
After the Spanish Civil War, most armies (including the U.S. Army), realized that they needed tanks armed with cannons, not merely vehicles armed with machine guns, [3] and so the M1 became obsolete. Civil War veterans (wearing Grand Army of the Republic uniforms) inspect an M1 combat car at the 1939 World's Fair in New York
Cuba in 1942 received military aid through the Lend-Lease program, and received eight Marmon-Herrington tanks from the U.S. [2] which became known in the Cuban army as the ‘3 Man Dutch’ [3] as they had been the model of tank sent to the Dutch East Indies campaign against the Japanese invasion in World War II. [4] [5] T-34-85 tank in Museo ...
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