M32 Tank Recovery Vehicle (ARV)

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M32 Tank Recovery Vehicle

Marines atop M32B2 Garapan, Saipan 1944

M32 towing a Panther, La Glaise 1945

M32 Tank Recovery Vehicle 2

M32 Tank Recovery Vehicle 98

M32 Tank Recovery Vehicle 3

M32B2 “Almighty” of 3rd Marine Tank Battalion and Japanese Typ 95 Ha-Go from 24th Independent Tank Company, Guam August 1944

M32B1 with T1E1 Mine Exploder „Earthworm” of 738th Tank Battalion, Belgium January 1945

M32B1 with T1E1 Mine Exploder “Earthworm” of 738th Tank Battalion, 2nd Armored Division, Belgium January 1945

M32 ARV and 3rd Army Troops Pass Germans Carrying Coffin near Coblenz 1945

M32B1 ARV of 6th Armored Division Bastogne 14 January 1945

Marines with Damaged M4 Tank and M32 on Okinawa

M32 Tank Recovery Vehicle 1945

M32 ARV „Shoot Six Bits” St. Mere Eglise, France 1944

M32 “Shoot Six Bits” St. Mere Eglise, France 1944

M32 was an armored recovery vehicle (ARV) used during World War II and the Korean War by the United States, and was based on the chassis of the M4 Sherman medium tank.