This M5A1 Stuart light tank traverses open ground in France during the Normandy campaign, summer 1944. By D-Day, the M5 series was obsolete, and the 37mm M6 gun was too small to defend against any enemy vehicles except armoured cars.
The M24 light tank was one of the finest tank designs to come out of the WWII period. And yet, such was the speed of technological advances and changes in tactics that in just a few years this excellent light tank had been bypassed by even more advanced designs, just as the late war F7F Tigercat and F8F Bearcat arrived too late for WWII and were obsolete just a very few years later.