Inside the Tanks : The M5 Stuart & M24 Chaffee - World of Tanks 

My Grandfather was a tank commander in a US M24 Chaffee. He was part of the US 8th armoured division under the control of Patton's 3rd army. He was involved in numerous engagements. One of them being the Battle of the Bulge. His tank was ultimately hit by a German 88mm when some bad intelligence told them that the town ahead was lightly fortified. In reality is was an extremely heavily armoured fortress of a town called Rheinberg. My Grandfather survived because he was about 6 foot 2 inches tall and had to spread his legs apart to stay low in the tank so he didn't get picked off. When the 88mm hit his tank it went between his legs and killed the the two guys up front. My Grandfather remembered his training and bailed out of the tank before a second round was fired as did a second soldier. The other soldier was hit by machine gun fire and my Grandfather ran to a ditch where he was strafed by machine gun fire as he tried to crawl to the rear. He finally made it back to friendly lines and went to empty his boots of the rain water. When he emptied them he poured out his own blood. It was then he discovered the 88mm had grazed his leg as it came through the tank. More information can be learned about this battle here. m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_YT1N0BfEdk.html He and my other Grandfather who was involved in the Normandy invasion at Omaha Beach on the coast of France both survived WW2.

Your production values are amazing. Some really superb analysis with real historical value. Bravo! Will be sharing this.

I've loved the Stuart tank ever sense I first saw it on Brothers in Arms: road to hill 30

my father has a full command tank radio, meant for the m4 sherman in 1944 with full mounts, radio, spare parts, manuals, antenna, etc, all garage sale finds. he uses it for HAM radio but it's in amazing condition and he'd love to give it a new home

I damn love the Chaffee, I wish I had one :) Love it so much I use it in world of Tanks often.

Hey Honey, I replaced your Stuart with a Chaffee...

Absolutely awesome series love the challenger

My passion is for aeroplanes, particularly WWII Warbirds...and then mainly the Spitfire. But watching these videos is getting me hooked into the World of Tanks.. excellent videos!

Thanks again Richard for another good vid!

Great video, i love these two tanks!

I LOVE these videos. They seem complete, full of interesting data/facts and very well presented. The presenter obviously loves armoured vehicles but does not get goofy about it by throwing adjectives all over the place. I think his presenting is spot on. But I wish you would tone down the 'bang' every time you change segments. The noise after the bang is cool. But the Bang itself is a bit jolting (unnecessarily, imo) - especially when you have headphones on (which I have to wear when watching these videos on my PC).

I realized that it's seldom remembered but there was a minor conflict in the Pacific where the M5 and even the M3 give good service as infantry support. the M8 gun carriage based on the same Hull also did very well

Nice vid Richard

The Chaffee really brought out the Philippine Army's fetish for light tanks...

A very nice review. Comparing the 2 light tanks was a great idea. Thanks.

El Ejército Nacional de Uruguay operó el M3 Stuart hasta fines de los '90 como carro de instrucción, y hace muy poco se dieron de baja 17 M24 Chafee(que fueron modernizados y mejorados en los '90).

great video 👍 💯

Great video

I like the Chaffee, its a very neat and tidy looking tank! :)

Any chance we'd ever see the Chilean Army upgrade of the Chaffee with the 60mm High Velocity gun in game?

It may be here or may not but the M-24 was still in use in Norway until the early 1990s. They were upgunned to a French low-pressure 90mm main gun and had the power pack replaced. The Norwegians saw this as a relatively low cost upgrade to a proven vehicle.

M-24's look cool..........Saw alotta them in the Henry Fonda movie "Battle Of The Bulge" with Telly Savalas as Guffy the M-24 tank commander, Charles Bronson, and "Danno" from Hawaii 5-0 was a Lt.Robert Shaw was the German Tiger II commander trying to race to the fuel dumps to get fuel for his tank army. Good film, nice tank!

Great report Richard, well done.

These are still two highly combat capable machines even today. The numbers produced alone speak *"volumes"* (so to speak.)

would love to see one of these remade with modern advances in machining and equipment.

idk why, But its satisfying when i hear them talk about how america and uk worked together so well

Krasa!

I was hoping that with your presentation of the differences between the Stuart and the Chaffee you would discuss the Tank Commander's Vane Sight that was mounted on the M-24, and how it was used for sighting the main gun. It you have any information about the "L-Shaped" sight I would be thankful if you could pass that along to me. I tried finding information on how TC's would use if for indirect fire, or helping with target acquisition for the gunner, but I have not found very much at all.

Why oh why did you nerf my M5 Stuart? I was a rolling nightmare on tracks for those "Artys" with the howitzer.

need the Chaffee as daily car, realy nice design

The Chaffee seemed a logical concept: A light, fast tank with a potent 75mm main gun. The drawback: light armor. As fast as the Chaffee was, I'd have felt confidant in one at WW2's end.

I love all these vids but more on there combat history would be good. It was just getting good. Challenger did not mention it also saw action with Pakistan during there wars with India. It also served in Chilli in modernised form until recently. More on combat history please or even better do a series.

Both the Stuart and Chaffee had seen action in Korea

Im new seeing all of this tank thing but how does the turret and the body of the tank works , like how the crew could get in and not get crushed with the turret?

Personally I’ve always been drawn to the M3 tank. I suppose it was because of a comic book I think was named ghost tank, it was looked over bythe ghost of JEB Sturat I think the tank commander was related to him. However, Say what you want but the M24 Chaffee is a beautiful looking tank atleast on the outside. Was it any good, I don’t know but it’s still a winner in the beauty category.

M3 Stuart was a scout tank and used in pacific campaign

I've seen 4 M24's here in Thailand. I wonder how much one is worth on the market?

Love the Chaffee

great

13:20 unless you have a TOW type missle launcher on side

The American factories flooded the battlefield with these along with the capable M 4 Sherman. Look at it like having hundreds of thousands of Chuckies (from the horror movie) rampaging through your Oktoberfest.

11:22 Does anyone know what the intended use of the panel with the numbers is?

HVAP ammunition was scarce during the war and mainly allocated to tank destroyer units, so its penetration is not very relevant as a measure of the effectiveness of the Chaffee's 75 mm gun.

The M5 Stuart is my favorite tank

Slightly off topic but does anyone know about fort Chaffee? The one near fort smith that was filled with asbestos in its barracks that “conveniently” burned down instead of a hazmat team coming down and doing it themselves. A whole lot of cancer started after in my family for those who lived near I wonder if the similar names have anything to do with each other.

I read somewhere that the British Military deny naming the Stuart "The Honey". They claim this is an Americanism. The British said that in the UK at that time honey is something you put on toast. It was never at that time something you called your girlfriend or wife. That was a pure Americanism.

I really like this tank and I love it in war thunder!

Hey. Whats the song used at the start ? Sounds so epic

bring the chaffie to blitz

I got a question why if the m5 replaced the m3 why did the marines still use it

Just got the m5 Stuart

To me the Chaffee is a great illustration of US tank progress. The Americans go from have no 75mm guns, to having a hull mounted one, to finally getting it on the turret of the Sherman, and then by the end of the war it's on the light tank.

Ahora que lo pienso...el Chaffee si se parecía bastante a los Panzer

Have this series covered the panther and king tiger? If not plz do these two soon Wargaming

10:30 easily penetrate the frontal armour of a Panzer IV..nice Too bad I only get in tier 7-8 match makings XD

+Wargaming Europe At 7:35 I can see that your not trying to get your finger prints on that Chaffee. :-P

plz add in more tanks to blitz other than premium or limited time tanks like the anger Conner or the is3 defender

Where do I find the one with the M3 Stuart

The m24 toffee:D

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I feel like he should do the M22

I didn't know barry chuckle was into tanks

7:32 who feed annie?

Im Here Coz I Using M5 Stuart for a Long Time Without Upgrading for a Large and Better Class in World Of Tanks Game..😅😅

m 24 Chaffee is my favorite tank in WOT

light tanks in the modern era will be turned into recon vehicles,but what about light tanks turning into tank hunters?

What about BT-7 art.?

rip chuckle

What is the purpose of the angled projection on the right side of the M5 turret?

M5 Stuart tank♡♡

When use correctly light tanks are highly valuable. The light tanks use less fuel they can exploit flanks and generally harass the enemy better than the fuel hog heavy's. Light tank armor should only be expected to protect the crew from rifle fire and shrapnel. The speed of the light tank is it's advantage. The M3 Stuart was very capable with the 37mm gun to take advantage of flanking enemy tanks. Fighting head on would not be the way to use light tanks, they would not survive frontal assaults. Hit and run, never trade punches with any other tank. It is not practical to engineer tanks to take more than it can dish out, but that is what has been done. The Chaffee with it's 75mm gun was a worthy replacement for the Stuart. The 37mm lost the confidence of tankers because it was the smallest gun on the battle field. The controversy of small hole -vs- big hole, the big hole gives better odds of a one shot kill but reloading is slower so if a miss is scored the smaller faster reloading gun is favored. That gave way to the slow heavy M6 mounted with both a big hole maker 76mm and a small hole maker 37mm. The 76mm M18 tank destroyer filled the flank and harass role best, it just needed a lid on the turret.

What was the most comfortable tank of WWII? Which was the best just sitting and moving around in? Which had the best cross country performance?

what about the m22?

can you amagin one of those rolling down youre street

why can we use the machine gun?

Man I know there is already a video on the Sherman, but I would love to see a video for this series on the most feared Sherman, the Sherman Firefly.

3:26 That is a Matilda...Not an M3.

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And both are still use in manny or same Latin American State today.

What's the music ?

Whats the best way to avoid bieng penetrate by german tank!

Then simple make a even FASTER tank!

I wonder how the the armor of the stuart and the chaffee would have stood up to the anti armor and anti personnel mines of the nva and Vietcong back in nam.?

Thanks for turkish language translate.

Bazooka is bigger than its cannon.

I'm playing world of tanks and I'm in a m3 Stuart

AMX ELC bis

we need more tanks movie plz!!!

The game brought me here. Getting bored with Fifa16 and Black Ops3 on XBOX1. Cool video.

🙂🤝🇧🇷🇺🇸 In memory of your heroes

Is 7 plzz

Excellent video as always. But the game itself (World of tanks) is way inferior compare to Warthunder.

OOH RAH

Add them to next upadate

I’m sorry, undergunned? This tanks gun penetrated pz lll and lv like butter.

Wait, M24 has an autoloader? Why in war thunder it doesnt??

Here because of Enlisted.

日本語字幕が有るのはありがたい。

HVAP=APCR

5:00 So it was faster off-road than on the road? Wtf Wargaming...