Chaffee is a fine example of yet another British service vehicle hidden behind the Lend-Lease barrier. 289 vehicles were shipped to the UK under Lend-Lease, and saw action during WW2.
Stuart, Lee, Grant, Sherman, Chaffee, Locust. None of these names were given by the US Army to these vehicles!
out of an initial order of 600, if the war had continued it would have hit that, from my understanding the surplus is where alot of the chaffees represented with the other nations in game came from, where as with the sherman V’s/M4A4 i know for a fact they are ex British stock XD
Also behold an image dump
Chaffee and Honey Tanks of 8th Hussars HQ (Recce) Squadron, outside Hamburg, 1945
Chaffee Tank - issued to Recce Troop, HQ Squadron towards the end of the War
The Crew of Halcyon Recce troop HQ Squadron
Chaffee in Tunis
Nice, those are some lively photos.
aye its not hard to find pictures for them in British service, its almost like we used them quite heavily in the last leg of the war ;)
That’s nice. Wish it was that easy to find photos/info of WW2 service vehicles for Canada.
I hope france gets it too, which was the 2nd largest user of M24 chaffee after the US.
Those little tanks can improve any lineup, and most of them actually needed them.
+1
The chaffee is one of the best tanks at 3.7 it would improve anyones line up :)
Found A list of general visual differences between the brit and American chaffee
Different antenna mount on the left-side of the turret
British anntena at the turret’s roof
No stowage box at the back of the turred (not all)
Additional stowage box on fender (rigt
Fire exthinguisgers
No track cover
With photos
also some chaffees had the British commander sight
SHHHHH, tell them that after they add it to our tree, extra model work will make it less likely.
Kek, they like to tweak stuff anyway, in before it has camo netting and is a prem XD
The country that operated over 25% of all Chaffees built are yet to receive the second half of the M24 they are missing as well. Chaffee for everybody!
I think GB should absolutely receive the Chaffee, as they operated it, but I think the F/A-18 is completely overboard, and GB absolutely doesn’t need it and shouldn’t have it.
To be clear; I don’t think any nation other than the US and maybe Sweden should receive the F/A-18- and even then, Sweden should have only had one variant, not two.
The fact of the matter is Gaijin hands out US aircraft like Candy not because of historical accuracy or some other reason, but because it is cheap and easy for Gaijin to do to make them money. They simply use the excuse of “affiliated nations” to make it so they don’t have to do any work.
This, where as when it comes to ground alot of these land lease tanks were actual British armoured unit backbone, and we still lack one the sherman v is the most painful followed by the chaffee
I would much prefer something actually British, like one of the many armored cars they used/developed. Two of the best candidates for such are thing are sadly event vehicles right now. I’m against the Danish M24 as well.
Britain was a main user of the m24…
That is how M24 becomes ‘Chaffee’, isn’t it? XD
Yes, M24 was named Chaffee in British service.
We give the name to quite a few of the American tanks of ww2
