But the M3’s design was in fact based upon expediency. Entering World War II, the United States fielded only M2A4 and M3 Stuart light tanks and a few dozen M2 medium tank suitable only for training.

But the M3’s design was in fact based upon expediency. Entering World War II, the United States fielded only M2A4 and M3 Stuart light tanks and a few dozen M2 medium tank suitable only for training.

This, then, was the tank that the M3 Grant/Lee would have been the first time around, had the Allies had the time and experience to have made it so. The Lee/Grant, and Sherman in context.

M3 General Grant tanks nearing completion at the newly-built Chrysler Tank Arsenal. The Army Ordnance Department always perceived the M3 as an inadequate design, relied upon as a stopgap only.

The United States fielded thousands of tanks during World War II, and while most people know of the M4 Sherman, another tank preceded it.The M3 Lee (called the Grant in the U.K.) was designed to ...

So says tank restorer Carl Brown, who’ll be demonstrating this bullethole-riddled 1941 M3 Grant at the Classic and Sports Car Show in association with Flywheel later this month. The M3 Grant was the ...