Yes, Marines Use Tanks

While the 75mm M4 Sherman tanks were quickly outclassed by the latest German designs, they were more than enough to hand the best tanks the Japanese could muster in the Pacific.

Used to getting hand-me-down equipment from the Army, the Marines were delighted to receive Shermans rather than the obsolete M3 Lee's.

The solid armor, 75mm cannon, two .30 cal. and one .50 cal. machineguns were enough to handle the best Japanese AFV's. 

The 75mm HE rounds were effective at both anti-personnel and bunker busting.

Some Shermans were even equipped with flamethrowers making them even more deadly.

I build and painted this plastic model in the camouflage pattern used by the 5th Marine Tank Battalion at Iwo Jima in 1945. The Marines brush pained rather than airbrushed the camo on their tanks for Iwo.   My mom's name was "Dolly." I finished this Sherman today.