In mid-March the 1st Battalion, Heavy Tank Service (as it was then known) was ordered to prepare for movement overseas, and Eisenhower went to New York with the advance party to work out the details of embarkation and shipment with port authorities. Captain Dwight Eisenhower, later General Dwight Eisenhower of World War II fame, had gone to Camp Meade, Maryland, in February 1918 with the 65th Engineer Regiment, which had been activated to provide the organizational basis for the creation of the army's first heavy tank battalion.

Light tanks with a crew of only two, these were mass-produced by the French during World War I, but the Americans had to be trained first. In 1917 the French produced the Renault FT, which was one of the types operated by the US Army in France. The United States entered World War I unprepared and unequipped for tank warfare. Light tanks with a crew of only two, these were mass-produced during World War I. Renault FT tanks being operated by the US Army in France.

5.6 Current tanks in use by the US Army.

1.5.1.1 M3 Light Tank and M5 Light Tank.

Light us military tanks ww2