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- Wehrmacht soldier with Char D1
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- German soldiers poses atop a D1 1940 4
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- D1 and M4 od the 2RCA Oran 1943
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- D1 front view 2
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- French medium tank D1 and Sd,Kfz 10 1940
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- Char D1 tanks 2
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- German soldier posing in front of D1
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- D1 1940 5
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- D1 white 62 of the 67e BCC
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- D1 tank 99
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- Char D1 North Africa
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- Char léger D1 white 07
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- Abandoned D1 tank 3
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- D1 code 44
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- Renault Char D1 coded 18
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- KO’d French Char D1
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- D1 1940 2
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- D1 1940
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- D1 tank 1028
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- A column of Char D1 tanks
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- Renault D1 and Renault ACG-1 assembly line
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- D1 1940 3
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- D1 turret
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- D1 number 12
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- A column of Char Renault D1 medium tanks
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- D1 in Ligny-en-Barrois
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- D1 code 87
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- Abandoned D1 number 56
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- Renault D1 12 of the 67 BCC
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- D1 front view
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- Renault D1 18 of the 67 BCC
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- 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.