Mar 11, 2019
(March 2019) A rare M22 Locust airborne tank designed and built in the US but only used in combat during WW2 by the British and by Egypt in the 1948 Arab-IsraeliWar. This one is at the Museum of American Armor in Old Bethpage, NY on Long Island. It previously resided at the Military Museum of Southern New England in Danbury, CT until that museum went under.
The M22 Locust was much too lightly armored to survive combat with 12.5mm frontal armor and 9.5mm elsewhere. Of the 8 dropped into Germany in gliders, only 2 made it the objective and soon had to withdraw.