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Half Tracks In The PI 1941!


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Found this foto by accident, was unaware the forces in the PI had them, thought maybe those White Wheeled Types, but not Half Tracks.

 

What M3 type would this be by the way?

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I am not 100% sure, but I think the National Guard units which fought until the fall of the Phillipines and the Death March had them and used then in combat.

 

The two units that immediately come to mind would be the 194th Tank Battalion and the 192nd Tank Battalion.

 

The 194th was from Minnesota, I think the 192nd was from the St Louis area.

 

I don't know if they took their home state NG vehicles with them or they got them when they got called up and became regular Army units?

 

Others here will likely know.

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Found this foto by accident, was unaware the forces in the PI had them, thought maybe those White Wheeled Types, but not Half Tracks.

 

What M3 type would this be by the way?

 

It actually looks like an M2 (notice the hinges along the bottom edge of the armor behind the driver's door).

 

FWIW,

JAG

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Found this foto by accident, was unaware the forces in the PI had them, thought maybe those White Wheeled Types, but not Half Tracks.

 

What M3 type would this be by the way?

Provisional Tank Group of USAFFE (192nd/194th Tank Bn's,

 

M2, M3, M3GMC(T12), Universal carriers (from a ship carrying them to Singapore for a Canadian Brigade), M3 Stuarts also

 

https://www.benning.army.mil/library/content/Virtual/Armorpapers/BernardGeorgeL%20CPT.pdf

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Headlights are a sign as well.

Early production M2 & M3 HT series had fender headlights

 

Later prod had the demountable ones

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