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A company of M3 Lee tanks of the Soviet 6th Guards Army advance towards the front line during the Battle of Kursk, July 1943. Beginning from 1941, 1,386 M3 medium tanks were shipped from the US to the Soviet Union, with 417 lost when their transporting vessels were sunk by German submarine, naval and aerial attacks en route.
The first tanks rumbled out of the plant before its complete construction. [4] During World War II, the Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant built a quarter of the 89,568 tanks produced in the U.S. overall. The plant made M3 Lee tanks while the buildings were still being raised and switched to M4 Sherman tanks in 1942.
M2 medium tank; Medium tank M3 Lee/Grant (all models) Medium tank M4 Sherman (all models) M46 Patton; M47 Patton; M48A1/A2/A3/A5 Patton; M48A4; Experimental.
A better tank (which was eventually to become the Medium M3 Lee) was designed as an interim until the M4 could be produced. The M3 was ordered in large numbers by the British to a slightly different specification but by the time Lend-Lease was introduced the two variants were more alike except for the turret. Over half of M3 production would be ...
The first Marines to use tanks in World War II were patched together US Army M2 light tanks in an ad hoc unit in the Philippines in early 1942, but details are scant. On 7 August 1942, M2 and M3 tanks landed on Guadalcanal with the 1st Tank Battalion. Later some upgraded M3s called the M5 were introduced.
The M3 tanks with the British turret and radio setup received the name "General Grant", while the original M3s were called "General Lee", or more usually just "Grant" and "Lee". The M3 brought much-needed firepower to British forces in the North African desert campaign. Front view of an M3. The 75 mm was operated by a gunner and a loader.
American M3 Lee; American M3 Stuart; American M4 Sherman; American M5 light tank; British Matilda tank – Pz. 748(e) British Mk IV Churchill; Czechoslovakian LT vz. 35 – Panzerkampfwagen 35(t) Czechoslovakian LT vz. 38 – Panzerkampfwagen 38(t) Czechoslovakian LT vz. 38 – 7.5 cm Pak 40/3 auf sfl. 38(t), Ausf H. or Marder III (Sd.Kfz. 138)
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