M3A1 White Scout Car Walk Around
(Soft Cover)
Product Code: SS5720

Description
By David Doyle.
The White Motor Company began serial production of the
four-wheel-drive M3A1 Scout Car in 1940. Covered in quarter-inch
face-hardened armor, the vehicle served the US military as scout,

command car, ambulance and in some cases as a gun tractor. Armed
with one .50 caliber and two .30 caliber machine guns on a skate
rail that completely surrounded the fighting compartment, the
M3A1 saw action in the Philippine tropics, the North African
desert and during the 1943 invasion of Sicily. However, US forces

soon replaced the open-topped M3A1 with other armored vehicles
that afforded better coverage. Because the vehicle was widely
exported it served on - heavily used by the Red Army on the
Eastern Front and by Free French, Belgian, Czechoslovak and
Polish forces throughout WWII. Later, France took the vehicle
into combat in colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria.
Illustrated with more than 200 photographs, plus color profiles
and detailed line drawings; 80 pages.