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Corgi US51009 M4 A3 Sherman Tank - WW II USMC MIB RARE

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The Marine Corps had been using the M3 Stuart light tank in the Pacific. The Stuart's 37mm gun was ineffective against Japanese bunkers, and its light armor made it vulnerable to the new 47mm Japanese antitank guns. The Marines desperately needed a better tank, and in November 1943 they used Shermans at Tarawa in the first landing of tanks on a beachhead under direct enemy fire. Many of the tanks never made it to shore, being knocked out by Japanese artillery fire or drowned in deep sell holes. Three did end up making it in, with the Condor mistakenly knocked out by a U.S. Navy dive-bomber, the Colorado hit with Molotov cocktails but surviving, and the China Gal providing valuable fire support for the grunts. (Each of the tanks was given a name starting with a "C" since they were all from.