- D1 and M4 od the 2RCA Oran 1943
- German soldiers poses atop a D1 1940 4
- Wehrmacht soldier with Char D1
- French medium tank D1 and Sd,Kfz 10 1940
- D1 front view 2
- Char D1 tanks 2
- German soldier posing in front of D1
- D1 1940 5
- D1 white 62 of the 67e BCC
- D1 tank 99
- Char D1 North Africa
- D1 code 44
- Abandoned D1 tank 3
- Char léger D1 white 07
- D1 1940
- D1 1940 2
- KO’d French Char D1
- Renault Char D1 coded 18
- Renault D1 and Renault ACG-1 assembly line
- A column of Char D1 tanks
- D1 tank 1028
- D1 1940 3
- D1 turret
- D1 number 12
- A column of Char Renault D1 medium tanks
- D1 code 87
- D1 in Ligny-en-Barrois
- Renault D1 12 of the 67 BCC
- Abandoned D1 number 56
- Renault D1 18 of the 67 BCC
- D1 front view
- Char D1 and FT-17 tanks, 1940
The French plan of 1926 to create a Light Infantry Support Tank led to the development of the existing Renault NC1 prototype into the Char D1. The type was produced between 1931 and 1935 in a number of 160. There was a pre-series of ten vehicles; later 150 standard vehicles were built. Until 1936 the vehicles were fitted with FT-17 turrets because the intended cast ST2 turrets were not ready yet. The ST2 turret was armed with a short 47mm SA34 tank gun with a coaxial 7.5mm MG. The hull carried a 7.5mm MG in the bow. The type did not serve as an infantry support tank as originally intended, but as France’s major battle tank of the early thirties; it was quickly phased out in 1937 because of its mechanical unreliability.