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Squadron Signal Publications have sent us details of the latest in their excellent 'Walk-Around' series
SS5720 - M3A1 WHITE SCOUT CAR WALK AROUND
Written by David Doyle and following the usual format for this series, the book consists of 80 pages, more than 200 photos and a series of color profiles.
Here are some additional details on the book:
The White Motor Company began serial production of the four-wheel-drive M3A1 Scout Car in 1940. Covered in quarter-inch face-hardened armor, the vehicle served the US military as scout, command car, ambulance and in some cases as a gun tractor. Armed with one .50 caliber and two .30 caliber machine guns on a skate rail that completely surrounded the fighting compartment, the M3A1 saw action in the Philippine tropics, the North African desert and during the 1943 invasion of Sicily. However, US forces soon replaced the open-topped M3A1 with other armored vehicles that afforded better coverage. The vehicle was widely exported and was heavily used by the Red Army on the Eastern Front, by the Free French, Belgian, Czechoslovak and Polish forces throughout WWII. Later, France took the vehicle into combat during its colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria.
Available NOW from the usual outlets.
Our thanks to Squadron Signal Publications for the update!
Written by David Doyle and following the usual format for this series, the book consists of 80 pages, more than 200 photos and a series of color profiles.
Here are some additional details on the book:
The White Motor Company began serial production of the four-wheel-drive M3A1 Scout Car in 1940. Covered in quarter-inch face-hardened armor, the vehicle served the US military as scout, command car, ambulance and in some cases as a gun tractor. Armed with one .50 caliber and two .30 caliber machine guns on a skate rail that completely surrounded the fighting compartment, the M3A1 saw action in the Philippine tropics, the North African desert and during the 1943 invasion of Sicily. However, US forces soon replaced the open-topped M3A1 with other armored vehicles that afforded better coverage. The vehicle was widely exported and was heavily used by the Red Army on the Eastern Front, by the Free French, Belgian, Czechoslovak and Polish forces throughout WWII. Later, France took the vehicle into combat during its colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria.
Available NOW from the usual outlets.
Our thanks to Squadron Signal Publications for the update!
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