At the onset of World War II, the U.S. had no modern tanks equal to those used by the German military. Therefore, as an upgrade of the M2 Light Tank, the U.S. built the M3 Stuart in 1941, forming ...

After the M5 tanks, Cadillac introduced the M-24 light tank, which was the M5 tank's successor and positioned as an ...

It involved lifting the 14-ton light tank onto a trailer and rolling the whole convoy a distance of 70 miles (112.7 km) to the facility of Sandman's Sandblasting and Coating in Manchester, New York.

The M5 light tank and its replacement, the M24 “Chaffee” (introduced in 1944) were graced with Caddy power, as were a number of rolling Howitzers.

PLAINFIELD — Town officials are looking to spruce up and re-dedicate a pair of time- and weather-scarred demilitarized battle tanks sitting sentry at local veterans’ memorial sites. The tanks, a M60A3 ...

The M5 light tank is removed from a hole in the road in Chartres, northern France. The road workers found the machine during routine repairs and a mechanical digger was brought in to uncover it ...

The regiment moved to Fort Benning on 20 September 1943, and was divided into two Tank Battalions, the 40th and the 709th Tank Battalions equipped with M4 medium and M5 light tanks.

He was a gunner on an M5 light tank assigned to the 4th Armored Division of Gen. George S. Patton Jr.’s 3rd Army when he landed on Utah Beach in June 1944, two weeks after the D-Day Normandy ...

An M5 light tank was discovered yesterday by council workers at Chartres, 55 miles southwest of Paris, during the course of their work. The tank was from the America’s 31st Tank Battalion, part of the ...

The M5 was issued exclusively to tank destroyer battalions. As its nomenclature suggests, its primary use was to destroy enemy tanks at distances of up to nine miles.