American World War 2 Tanks That Need Adding to War Thunder

In this 4th episode of my series looking at World War 2 Tanks That Need Adding to War Thunder, we take a look at American tanks of the World War 2 period!

So join me as we take a look at the many unique but flawed Marmon-Herrington designs, various variants of the M3 Lee and M4 Sherman that are still to be added, tanks that could have replaced the Sherman and some rather cool amphibious and flamethrower tanks!

Also just to confirm tank destroyers, SPG's, armoured cars and anti air vehicles will be looked at in a future episode!

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Tanks featured in this episode ⬇️
CTL-3
CTL-6
CTM-3TBD
Christie M1932 “Flying Tank”
T9 Light Tank
M22 Locust
M3 Stuart
M5 Light Tank
M24 Chaffee
T24E1
M24 with SD.KFZ 8 halftrack suspension
M24 with 28 inch Grousers
M24 with 2 x 4.5 inch Beach Barrage "Old Faithful" rockets
T24 with T122 machine gun mount
CTMS-ITB1
MTLS-1GI42
M3 Medium "Lee" and "Grant"
M3A1 Medium Tank
M3A2 Medium Tank
M3A3 Medium Tank
M3A4 Medium Tank
M3A5 Medium Tank
T6 Medium Tank (M4 Sherman Prototype)
M4 Medium Tank
M4A5
M4A6 Medium Tank
M4A1 (76M1)
M4A1E6
M4A3E4
Sherman 17-Pounder
Sherman T34 Calliope
Sherman T40/M17 "Whizbang"
T7 Light Tank
T7E1 Light Tank
T7E2 Light Tank
T7E3 Light Tank
T7E4 Light Tank
T7E5 Light Tank
M7 Medium Tank
T20
T20E3
T22
T22E1
T23
T23E3
T23E4
T25
T25E1
T1E2/M6 Heavy Tank
T26E2/M45 Medium Tank
M3E4
T86
T86E1
T87
LVT(A)(1) with M24 Chaffee turret
M24 with flotation device
M4 Sherman with T6/M19 Flotation Device
M18 GMC with T7 Flotation Device
T88 GMC with T7 Flotation Device
M3 Stuart with bow mounted flamethrower
E9-9 Mechanized Flame Thrower
Sherman with bow mounted flamethrower
Sherman Crocodile
T33 Flame Thrower tank
T68

American Light Tanks: 00:00
American Medium Tanks: 13:52
American Heavy Tanks: 54:40
Amphibious Tanks: 1:01:54
Flamethrower Tanks: 1:06:44