"Australian Tanks in Pacific." Topic

What tanks did the Australians use in the Pacific? Also, what color were they painted? I'm pretty sure they had a base of some type of green, but did they also use camo patterns?

I seem to remember that the Australians deployed Valentines on some of the operations, but don't know which ones.

Thanks in advance.

I've seen pictures of U.S. lend-lease Stuart/Honeys in action in the Pacific with Aussies. It looked (in the black and white pictures) to be an olive green, no camo. Cheers.
Peter X

They used Matildas as well, both the gun tank and its flamethrower version.

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The Aussies received several hundred M3 Lee/Grants but I believe they never saw combat.

Jeff

M3 Stuart
M3 Stuart w/ rolled turret
M3A1 Stuart
M3 Grant
M3A5 Grant
A12 Matilda MkIV
A12 Matilda MkIV 'Frog' flamethrower
A12 Matilda MkIV 3" close support

They were jungle green, the same darker than normal green shade as the commonwealth tanks in burma

Stuarts/Honeys and Matildas on various campaigns.
Grants in the armourd division on the continent.
Churchills on order for late '45.

Valentines were NZ.

When I was tooling around the North Island in NZ in '87 I came upon a faded dark green Valentine in a town square in good shape.

Hi try this link to a site called 'ANZAC Steel'

anzacsteel.hobbyvista.com

Are you sure they used tanks in the Pacific? I think they would sink and not be very useful. :) now PT boats and subs would work much better. snicker!

Try this one as well.

mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks

Mainly used Matildas as they were heavy enough to squash the undergrowth & get traction, the Stuarts were not very popular for the converse reason – they kept on getting hung up.

Also remember that Australians mainly served in New Guinea and then Borneo with quite different terrain to most of the 'islands' the US forces assaulted.

sme shots I tpook at Pucka in 2000
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and this one
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