abn deuce Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Export of Stuart M-5 Tanks at a VERY good price , Wonder if any of them survived their military service and avoided the scrap man ? Caption: Surplus American M-5 Stuart light tanks being loaded for shipment to China after being purchased for $1,000 each by Chinese Nationalist forces who are battling the communist Red Army. Location: Philadelphia, PA, US Date taken: 1950 Photographer: Thomas D. Mcavoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bystander Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Interesting that some of the tanks were carried in gondola cars rather than the flat cars that one would expect (and are being used for some of the tanks in the photo). Was this common US practice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abn deuce Posted February 1, 2009 Author Share Posted February 1, 2009 Unknown perhaps is was a case of what stock was available at the time to move the tanks with , and it was possible due to the size of the tanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abn deuce Posted March 7, 2009 Author Share Posted March 7, 2009 Nice orderly rows of training tanks after the end of the WWII from the Life magazine site Aerial view of the US Army depot storing unused equipment. Location: Tooele, UT, US Date taken: March 27, 1946 Photographer: Charles E. Steinheimer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 Arent those M3 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abn deuce Posted March 8, 2009 Author Share Posted March 8, 2009 Your right guess the title of the thread needs to change or the fourth and fifth posting need to be put into a new one thread , Can a Mod help me ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 Your right guess the title of the thread needs to change or the fourth and fifth posting need to be put into a new one thread , Can a Mod help me ? Not neccesary I think. There still Stuarts! Cool pics by the way, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 Nice photo i found ,one in British hands Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agripper Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 did we have a lot of stuarts as a stop gap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Barrell Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 Not a stop gap, the British army used them from 1941 through till the 1950's in one form or another. By D-Day, the main model in use was the M3A3, known as the Stuart V as in the last pic with some M5A1s, Stuart VI coming in. These were used as recce tanks but some earlier M3A1s were still in use. By the end of the war, many of the Stuart Vs had lost their turrets to provide a lower sillouette. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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