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M-24 Chaffee in Action

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M-24 Chaffee in Action

M-24 Chaffee in Action (Armour in Action 25) By Jim Mesko
Publisher: Squadron/Signal Publications Inc. 1988 | 50 Pages | ISBN: 0897472055 | PDF | 9 MB


During the early 1930s the Army Chief of Staff, GEN Douglas MacArthur, had begun a push to mechanize the Army and felt that the Cavalry should be equipped with tanks. He envisioned an armored Cavalry capable of moving ahead of the infantry to disrupt enemy forces. As a result of his efforts approval was granted to equip the Cavalry with tanks. To circumvent the 1920 Defense Act. which had allocated control of tanks lo the Infantry, vehicles were procured for the Cavalry as "combat cars'. Due to the economic constraints of the Depression, the Army was forced to concentrate funds on a modified version of the infantry tank, instead of a new design. The late 1930s saw infantry tank units equipped with the M2A2 and M2A3. while Cavalry units used two combat cars, the Ml and M2. The basic difference between these vehicles were the number of turrets carried by each. Infantry tanks had twin side by side turrets while Cavalry models had single turrets.

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