ACCPACK124
Thomas Gunn Miniatures
Not yet released - Special Pre-Order period until September 30, 2024 with expected delivery end of November 2024.
The M24 Chaffee was officially classed as a light tank, entering service in the last year of WWII, but then seeing service in the Korean War, with the French in the First Indochina War, and then in the Algerian war. The Chaffee was efficient, simple, reliable and rugged, it was mainly exported after WW2 and stayed in service with many armies until the 1980s and beyond, encompassing most of the Cold War. In British service it was given the service name Chaffee after the United States Army general, Adna R. Chaffee Jr.
The M24 Chaffee was a replacement for the M3/M5 Stuart Tank, it was a new generation in light tank design, massively improving the American light tank, with modern torsion bar suspensions, completely revised welded steel armour, improved protection and a much more potent lightweight 75 mm main gun. The M24 Chaffee had a four-man crew; commander, gunner, driver and assistant driver, the latter moving up into the turret and serving as loader when the tank was in action.
The M24 was virtually the only tank that US Far East Command could immediately dispatch to the Korean Peninsula. At the Battle of Chochiwon, 10th – 12th July 1950, when A Company of the 78th Tank Battalion, assigned to the 24th Infantry Division, fought a North Korean tank and destroyed it while losing two of their own. In August 1950 U.S. medium tanks were finally deployed on the Korean Peninsula, the M4A3E8. With the M24 given to the reconnaissance squadrons under the tank battalion or the infantry division for most of the period and were used for reconnaissance, their original intended use.
All of the M24 Chaffee’s will be in a US Olive Drab colour scheme.
Comes with 3 x tank crew figures included all wearing US style helmets.
The 3 half crew members will be: Commander, Driver and Assistant Driver/Loader.
The crew hatches will open and close so you can display different crew combinations with your Chaffee(s).
Fixed non moveable tracks
Removeable turret machine gun
Rotating turret