M3 MEDIUM TANK

 

The Lee/Grant tank, (the name depended on if you were in the US Army or the British Army, respectively) was a stop-gap tank.  It had a well developed chassis, but as yet there was no way to mount the newly developed 75mm gun in a revolving turret.  The Lee had the 75 mounted in the hull, and a 37mm gun in a small turret carried over from the M2 the Lee replaced. .

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M3 medium tank from Dr. Schoenherr's site on tank projects. http://history.acusd.edu/gen/projects/145/tanks.html 

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Poorly camouflaged M3 from D-Day to Berlin

SOURCES:

The Patton Museum, Ft Knox, KY.

http://history.acusd.edu/gen/projects/145/tanks.html

D-Day to Berlin

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by Chris Shimp March 1, 2001