Tank M3 Lee Papercraft by Mr. Cube
The M3 Lee, officially the Medium Tank, M3, was an American medium tank used during World War II. In the UK, the tank is referred to by name based on its turret configuration and crew size. The tank using the US pattern dome is called the "Lee", named after Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The variant using the British pattern dome is known as the "Grant", named after the Union general, Ulysses S. Grant.
Design began in July 1940, and the first M3s were operational in late 1941. The US Army required a medium tank armed with a 75 mm gun and coupled with the UK's urgent demand for 3,650 medium tanks, Lee entered production in late 1940. The design was an intended compromise. to produce tanks as soon as possible. The M3 had considerable firepower and good shielding, but had serious flaws in general design and form, including a tall silhouette, ancient main gun mount sponges preventing the tank from taking a hull-down position, spiked construction, and poor cross-terrain performance. bad.
Overall performance was unsatisfactory and the tank was withdrawn from combat in most theaters as soon as the M4 Sherman tanks became available in larger numbers. Nonetheless, Lee was considered by Hans von Luck (an Oberst (Colonel) in the Wehrmacht Heer and author of the Panzer Commander) to be superior to the best German tank at the time, the Panzer IV (at least up to the F1 variant).
Despite being replaced elsewhere, the British continued to use the M3 in combat against the Japanese in Southeast Asia until 1945. Nearly a thousand M3s were supplied to the Soviet military under the Lend-Lease agreement between 1941–1943.
The M3 Lee is also a medium tank counterpart to the M3 Stuart light tank.
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