This meant that it was being prepared at around the same time as the Lee and Grant, but could not be produced at such a rate at the time. This, then, was the tank that the M3 Grant/Lee would have ...

another tank preceded it. The M3 Lee (called the Grant in the U.K.) was designed to function as the Army's primary medium tank across the entire theater of war until the M4 rolled off assembly lines.

Rushed into service and armed with two cannons, the M3 Lee/Grant wasn’t perfect—but it held the line when it mattered most. 5 years of student-debt relief for millions of borrowers is suddenly ...

By the time U.S. forces landed in French North Africa, superior Sherman tank were replacing the M3 Lee/Grant. Still, Lee tanks served in the 13 th Armored Regiment of the 1 st Armored Division ...

The genesis of the Grant sprang less from inspiration and more from desperation. Why were Rommel's tanks blowing up? As the Desert Fox's panzers churned through the Libyan desert in May 1942, they ...

Interestingly, the British then used what was known as the “General Grant” tank, a modified version of the “General Lee” tank, also made in America. Also, after the war, a WWII naval hero ...