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1st Provisional Tank Group
China-Burma-India Theater of World War II
http://cbi-theater-6.home.comcast.net/~cbi-theater-6/1ptg/1ptg.html
http://www.fireandfury.com/orbats/pacburmachina1942_2.pdf
http://www.cbi-history.com/part_xi.html
The 1st PTG fought much of the early part of the Northern Burma campaign with M3A3 light tanks, armed with 37mm guns. It was authorized 100-125 M3A3's at any given time. M/Sgt. Carl Beck, who led the 44-man training detachment, didn't like the M-3's. He said, "Japanese 47mm AT guns went right through the hulls of those little M-3's and out the other side. If they hit that little aluminum transmission, the transmission exploded, and everyone got hurt. We didn't have much protection."
China-Burma-India Theater of World War II
http://cbi-theater-6.home.comcast.net/~cbi-theater-6/1ptg/1ptg.html
http://www.fireandfury.com/orbats/pacburmachina1942_2.pdf
http://www.cbi-history.com/part_xi.html
The 1st PTG fought much of the early part of the Northern Burma campaign with M3A3 light tanks, armed with 37mm guns. It was authorized 100-125 M3A3's at any given time. M/Sgt. Carl Beck, who led the 44-man training detachment, didn't like the M-3's. He said, "Japanese 47mm AT guns went right through the hulls of those little M-3's and out the other side. If they hit that little aluminum transmission, the transmission exploded, and everyone got hurt. We didn't have much protection."
