US Marine Corps Tanks of World War II (Osprey New Vanguard 186)

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Название: US Marine Corps Tanks of World War II

Автор: Steven Zaloga

Иллюстратор: Richard Chasemore

Издательство: Osprey Publishing

Серия: New Vanguard 186

Год: 2012

ISBN: 1849085609

Страниц: 48

Язык: English

Формат: PDF (E-Book)

Размер: 4 MB

The US Marine Corps formed six tank battalions in World War II which saw combat in some of the most varied and extreme conditions of the Pacific theater. The Marine tank battalions fought on small coral atolls such as Tarawa, in the fetid jungles of the south west Pacific including Guadalcanal, in the lush central Pacific islands of the Marianas such as Saipan and Guam, and on the volcanic deserts of the Bonin islands such as Iwo Jima. The tank equipment of the Marine Corps was essentially the same as that used by the US Army: the M3 and M5A1 light tanks, and the M4 Sherman medium tanks.