Marmon-Herrington CTLS

Marmon-Herrington CTLS tank (a CTLS-4TAC in the foreground and a CTLS-4TAY in the background) in Alaska, summer of 1942.



The Marmon-Herrington Combat Tank Light Series were a series of U.S. light tanks/tankettes that were produced for the export market at the start of the Second World War. The CTL-3 had a crew of two and was armed with two .30 cal (7.62 mm) M1919 machine guns and one .50 cal (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine gun. They were originally designed to be amphibious light tanks. They were rejected by the Marines in 1939, but after the attack on Pearl Harbor they were exported and used as an emergency light tank.
It primarily served in Alaska and the Dutch East Indies, while small numbers were used in the U.S. as guard tanks stationed along the U.S. coast. A total of about 700 examples were produced, and although it was declared obsolete by the Allies in 1943, it was used by the newly created Indonesian Army after the end of the Second World War, remaining in Indonesian service until 1949.

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