This is an Italeri model kit of this M24 Chaffee packaged in a Tamiya field with Tamiya guidelines, plus a figure, a host of add-ons, as well as brand new and remolded parts. The M24 Chaffee was formally used in 1944 as a successor to the M3/5 Stuart light tanks. It was loaded with the compact 75mm gun (originally developed the B25 Mitchell bomber) and - somewhat unusually for a U.S. AFV - torsion bar suspension system. It managed to make it into solution in European countries prior to the cessation of hostilities in WWII, and served on and on through Korean War and - occasionally - even in to the 1980s.
