![]() ![]() The initial upgrade was designated the M3 Stuart and had thicker armor, modified suspension and a 37mm mm gun. The Stuart was an upgrade of the M2 Light Tank. M3/5 Stuart World War II M3 Stuart at Fort Knox, Kentucky, used for training. The CTLS-4TAC has the turret offset to the left, the CTLS-4TAY to the right. They were used for training, some were used in Alaska and by the US Marines. The CTLS-4TAC and -4TAY tanks were redesignated Light Tank T14 and T16 respectively. Marmon-Herrington tanks that could not be delivered because of the fall of the Dutch East Indies were taken over by the US. ![]() Marmon-Herrington CTLS tanks (a CTLS-4TAC in the foreground and a CTLS-4TAY in the background) in Alaska, summer of 1942. troops were supported by tank units of the French Army operating Schneider and Saint-Chamond machines. A battalion trained in England and saw action in France in the last six weeks of the War. ![]() troops also used the British Heavy Tanks Mk V and Mk V* (pronounced "Mark Five" and "Mark Five Star"). A later modification, the M1917A1, was a lengthened, rebuilt, updated version compared to the French one, having a 100 hp Franklin engine and an electric self-starter rather than a crank starter. 374 had cannons and 526 had machine guns and 50 were signal (radio) tanks. ![]() After the war Van Dorn Iron Works, the Maxwell Motor Company, and the C.L. Approximately 64 of the M1917 were built before the end of World War I and 10 were sent to Europe, but too late to be used in combat. Steel idler wheels replaced the wooden idlers fitted to French examples. The crew, a driver and gunner, were separated from the engine by a bulkhead. The M1917 was a US tank accepted by the army in October 1918 and is primarily based on the plans of the French Renault FT. This pattern, with the gun located in a mounted turret and rear engine, became the standard for most succeeding tanks across the world even to this day. It was cheap and well-suited for mass production, and in addition to its traversable turret another innovative feature of the FT was its engine located at the rear. World War I US Army operating Renault FT tanksĪs the American army did not have tanks of its own, the French two-man Renault FT Light Tank was used by US in the later stages of World War I. ![]()
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