![]() ![]() It had a five-man crew: commander, gunner, loader, driver, and fifth man who operated the hull machine gun and was cross-trained as a relief driver or loader. The M24 Chaffee was 18’3″ long, 9’10” wide, and 9′ tall. These air force tanks would be the last WWII Chaffees in Vietnam.) Even as the Vietnam War was being fought, the airport’s civilian side continued to handle commercial aviation. (With a PanAm Boeing 707 in the background, a M24 Chaffee of the VNAF (South Vietnamese air force) guards Tan Son Nhut in Saigon. (A M24 Chaffee of the ARVN (South Vietnamese army) attacking Gia Long Palace during the 1963 coup.) (A French army M24 Chaffee in combat during the Indochina War.) ![]() The American M24 Chaffee light tank of WWII saw postwar combat in southeast Asia for a quarter-century starting in 1950, first with the French army, then the South Vietnamese army, and finally the South Vietnamese air force.
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