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The M3 Stuart/light tank M3, was a US light tank of World War II, first entered service in the British Army in early 1941 and saw action in the North African campaign in July 1941. [4] Later an improved version of the tank entered service as the M5 in 1942 to be supplied to British and other allied Commonwealth forces under lend-lease prior to ...
The British Indian Army received 896 M3 series tanks as new supply and tanks shipped from North Africa. These comprised 517 Lee Is and 379 Grant Is. These comprised 517 Lee Is and 379 Grant Is. A further 1,386 were exported to the Soviet Union , [ 34 ] although only 957 of these reached Russian ports due to German U-boat and air attacks on ...
A Valentine in North Africa. The Valentine tank was the second most prolific tank (after the M3 Stuart) used by New Zealand during the Second World War. From October 1941 to March 1943, 255 Valentines were imported into New Zealand of which 100 were Mk II, 74 Mk III and 81 Mk V.
M3 tank crew at Souk el Arba, Tunisia, 23 November 1942. Of the 6,258 M3s produced by the U.S., 2,855 were supplied to the British Army, and about 1,368 to the Soviet Union. [37] Consequently, one of the American M3 medium tank's first actions during the war was in 1942, during the North African Campaign. [38]
The 9th Division Cavalry Regiment later also served in Syria and was the first Australian armoured unit to be equipped with modern vehicles, receiving British Crusader Mark II medium tanks and M3 Stuart light tanks. [34] [35] A number of captured French Renault R35 tanks were also used. [36] The regiment returned to Australia in early 1943. [37]
British combat experience in the North African campaign identified several shortcomings of the M3 Stuart light tank, especially the performance of its 37 mm cannon. A 75 mm gun was experimentally fitted to a howitzer motor carriage M8 – an M3 tank with a larger turret – and trials indicated that a 75 mm gun on the M5 light tank development ...
Centurion tank A British M3 (Stuart I) knocked out during fighting in North Africa Stuart tanks of the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars in North Africa, August 1941. In practice the British did not operate only infantry and cruiser tanks. Lack of production capacity meant the large scale adoption of US medium tanks.
Lee and Grant – M3 Lee medium tank; 3in SP M10 – M10 tank destroyer; 17pdr SP M10 – M10 tank destroyer equipped with a British 17-pounder gun; Stuart tank (nicknamed "Honey") – M3 Stuart light tank; Locust – M22 airborne light tank; Chaffee – M24 light tank; Priest – M7 self-propelled artillery