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In British service it was given the service name Chaffee after the United States Army general, Adna R. Chaffee Jr., who helped develop the use of tanks in the United States armed forces.

Jun 16, 2016 · The Chaffee was the last American light tank of WW2, designed to replace the Stuart and had a long career postwar, in Indochina, Korea, and elsewhere.

The M24 Chaffee was the last U.S. light tank to see extensive combat action. While a significant improvement over the M5 Stuart, the M24 still possessed many of the drawbacks found in light …

Jan 18, 2025 · The Chaffee was fast enough to scamper across the battlefield but could still slug it out from fixed positions nearly as well as the heavier Sherman. The enhanced mobility and …

The M24 Chaffee, while introduced late in the war, was the epitome of the Light Tank division in World War II. Its development was based on the need to replace the M3/M5 Stuart with …

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M24 Chaffee The M24 Light Tank was the replacement for the out of date M5 Stuart. It kept the same engines and transmission but had a more powerful gun and torsion bar suspension for …

M24 Chaffee Light Tank of the 20th Armored Division, 7th Army, near Salzburg in Austria, 4th May 1945 just a few days before the end of the war.

The M24, nicknamed the Chaffee in honor of Major General Adna R. Chaffee, Jr., the “Father of the Armored Force,” weighed in a little over nineteen tons (38,750 pounds). It had a length of …