M3/M3A1 Grease Gun. Posted: February 28, 2025 | Last updated: March 23, 2025. In 1941 the US Military began looking for an alternative for the Thompson submachine guns.

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 ...

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 ...

The M3 Lee is a tower of a tank. Its unusual appearance derives from the desire to add the 75mm gun to it, a mighty weapon that was improvised onto its body on a sponson.

The M3’s armor provided adequate long-range protection versus the Panzer III’s 50-millimeter gun, but proved vulnerable when German Panzer IVF2 tanks with long-barreled 75-millimeter guns ...