Stuart light tank in North African campaign,El Guettar Valley.

Stuart light tank

Chrysler tank arsenal,thousands of rivets are used in the production of one of the huge thirty-eight ton M-3 tanks. Whenever possible rivets are replaced by welded sections, but throughout much of the tank, as in the side plates on which this riveter is working, the steel plate is too heavy for welding. The riveting itself, a twenty-five ton

M3 construction

A half track equipped with a water cooled .50 machine gun  camouflaged by cactus pads during the WWII struggle for control of North Africa.Tunisia,February 1943.(rudeerude)