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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 .
M10A1 gun motor carriage, M10 tank destroyer Ford; T16 light tank. G-171 T16 light tank, Marmon-Herrington, model CTLS-4TAC; G-172 M2 crane, truck mounted, and M16 trailer for clamshell. G-173 M12 gunnery trainer tank, 75-mm gun; G-174 motor toboggan, Carl Eliason, model C. snowmobile Four Wheel Drive Co. G-175 Special tool combat vehicle; G-176
The Marmon-Herrington Company, Inc. is an American manufacturer of axles and transfer cases for trucks and other vehicles. [1] Earlier, the company built military vehicles and some tanks during World War II, and until the late 1950s or early 1960s was a manufacturer of trucks and trolley buses.
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]
Marmon-Herrington CTLS; Light tank M2. M2A1 (10) M2A2 (239) M2A3 (72) M2A4 (375) Light tank M3/M5 (22,743) ("General Stuart", shortened to "Stuart" and unofficially "Honey" in British service) Light tank M22 (830) ("Locust" in British service, name adopted by America) Light tank M24 (4,731) ("General Chaffee" in British service, name adopted by ...
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.
Marmon-Herrington tanks that could not be delivered because of the fall of the Dutch East Indies were taken over by the US. The CTLS-4TAC and -4TAY tanks were redesignated light tank T14 and T16 respectively. They were used for training, some were used in Alaska and by the US Marines.
In 1940, the distinction between infantry and cavalry tank units disappeared with the establishment of the Armored Force to manage all tanks in the U.S. Army. The "combat car" name was superfluous, and the cavalry unit tanks redesignated the M1 combat car as the "light tank M1A1" and the M2 combat car as the "light tank M1A2". [5] [4]