Unit Reveal - M3 Half-Tracks

Today we have two M3 half-tracks for our force!

Over 53.000 units of this vehicle were produced by different companies, including Diamond T  and White Motor Car Company. It had no crew beyond the driver and could transport 12 soldiers and their gear.

A little known fact:  the rack just above the track was actually designed to hold land mines!

The first of our M3s is bristling with guns, sporting not just the pintle-mounted  .50 cal machine gun in a ring mount, but alos 3 .30 cal guns in the back, covering every arc.

The first prototype of an American half-track was a modified M3 Scout Car built well before the war. In 1938, the M2 was built and tested, which then developed into the M3 that was adopted for service. It first saw combat during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines and was used until the end of the war and beyond.

Our second half-track is armed just with the ubiquitous .50 cal machine gun and has no storage to make it as different as possible from the first. Both vehicles are painted and weathered in the same way as the tanks.

Next time we will take a break from miniatures and have instead a review of another rule set you'll get with the army!

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