Check out page 22 of Tank Battles of the Pacific War 1941-1945 by Steve Zaloga (Concord Pub., ISBN 962-361-607-4). If you look at the back deck you can tell it is an M4 versus M4A3. It also has the low bustle early turret with out a loader's hatch.
The raised "step" along the back deck is the armored lip that protects the engine access hatch on M4 and M4A1 tanks. An M4A3 would have a flat back deck with no step.
The caption identifies the tank as belonging to the 754th Tank Battalion supporting the 129th Infantry Regiment of the 37th Division on Bouganville. There are several photographs identifying tanks of the 754th using the geometric/numeric insignia.
These are US Army tanks and not USMC tanks.
The Tamiya M4 early tank, kit #35190, would be the appropriate kit to recreate the photograph as a diorama.