M-41 Walker Bulldog Light TankThe M-41 Walker Bulldog Light Tank was fielded in 1951, equipped with a long barrel 76mm main gun, an improvement on the M24 Chaffee tank. In development it was known as the Light Tank T37, designed to be air-transportable and highly mobile but with a powerful main gun as a counter to the massed armor of the Soviet Red Army. It was also intended to be a platform for other armored vehicles that would share the chassis and engine (see M42 Duster). As development concluded in 1949, the tank was redesignated the T41E1 and finally standardized as M41. Other variants were produced up to the M41A3.
M-41 Walker Bulldog Light TankThe M41 Walker Bulldog Light Tank was named for Gen. Walton Harris Walker, commander of the 8th Army in Korea, who was killed in Korea in a jeep accident just before Christmas 1950. Walton had been nicknamed "Patton's Bulldog" for his service in Gen. Patton's Third Army during WW II, so the name was applied to the new tank.
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