1:72 scale diecast metal tank from the Hobby Master Ground Power Series HG3607. M24 Chaffee Tank, Republic of China (Taiwan) Army.

Length 3 inches
Width 2 inches

Features:
* Diecast metal and plastic construction.
* Rotating turret, elevating cannon and accurate hull.
* Painted, fitted, non-moving tracks on detailed non-rotating wheels.
* Realistic panel lines, antennas, access panels and surface details.
* Pad printed markings and placards that won't fade or peel like decals.
* Clear acrylic display case to protect model.

The replacement for the M-3 Stuart, the M-24, referred to by some as the Chaffee, was given angled armor thereby increasing its thickness. The M-24 was given a larger 75 mm gun as well as being the first US tank to use a torsion bar suspension. The M-24 didn�t do very well in Korea against the T34/85 so it was given secondary roles to the M26 and M46. The M41 Bulldog replaced the M24 in US service by 1953.

Included in the RoC Army (Republic of China � Taiwan) arsenal of 480 M-60A3s, 450 M-48Hs and 300 M-48A5 medium tanks, are 708 much older M-41 as well as 292 older M- 24 light tanks. In the early 1950s Taiwan acquired the M-24 Chaffees and this made it possible to create two armored divisions. These were the 1st at Hokou and the 2nd at Taichung. The Chaffees also made it possible to form 4 tank battalions (701st, 702nd, 711th, 731st) in Kinmen. Some of these divisions still lacked sufficient numbers of M-24s to bring them up to full strength so they became a mixer of M-24 and M-18 76mm TDs. In the late 1950s, the U.S. started to supply the more modern M41 so that by the late 1960s the M-24 had disappeared from the Divisions and only existed with the 4 battalions and eventually was placed into storage.