This really is an Italeri model kit associated with M24 Chaffee packaged in a Tamiya field with Tamiya guidelines, plus a figure, a number of add-ons, as well as new and remolded components. The M24 Chaffee ended up being officially adopted in 1944 as a successor towards the M3/5 Stuart light tanks. It was built with the compact 75mm weapon (originally developed the B25 Mitchell bomber) and - somewhat unusually for a U.S. AFV - torsion bar suspension. It managed to make it into service in European countries before the cessation of hostilities in WWII, and served on as well as on through Korean War and - in some places - also into the 1980s.
