Mated to an M6 carriage, the gun was designed to replace the smaller, lighter and now-obsolete M3 37MM gun, which was not able to mount meaningful resistance against Axis tanks. The M5 was issued ...

As armored vehicle design matured, it became increasingly apparent that the tank’s 37mm main gun was also insufficient to take on vehicles with increasingly better armor protection. The M3 ...

These were the M3 Stuart and M3 Lee. The M3 Stuart was a light tank armed with a 37 mm gun and three .30-caliber Browning machine guns. On the whole, the tank performed poorly. Its armor was ...

The original M3 “grease gun” was developed in the early 1940s and adopted by the U.S. Army in 1943 as a cost-saving alternative to the much more complex and difficult-to-produce Thompson ...

Though the M2 eventually left service, the tank’s successor, the M3 also fared poorly as it retained a 37mm main gun. This was one of the United States’ smallest tanks of World War Two—and ...

The Thompson submachine gun and the M3 submachine gun, two classic submachine guns (SMGs), helped American GIs win World War II. Both fired the same powerful and ever-beloved .45 ACP (Automatic ...