The U.S. M3 Lee/Grant Tank: the Twin Gunned General!

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The Americans hurriedly started to develop a tank that would later become the legendary and highly successful M4 Sherman medium tank.
In the meantime, however, both the Americans and the British desperately needed a stop-gap tank to match the current generation of German tanks.

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Credit:
Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
Script: Conan White
Narrator:

Bryan 'Lazlo' Beauregard

Animation: Maja Djokic

Sources:

M3 & M5 Stuart Light Tank 1940–45 by Steven J. Zaloga
The Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II By Chris Bishop
Weapons of the Tankers By Harry Yeide
M3 Lee/Grant Medium Tank 1941–45 By Steven J. Zaloga
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Oh wow, the art has improved MASSIVELY, yet the “simplistic” art feel still remains... Love it

siegfriedk
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This tank is severely underrated, it was a stopgap for Allied forces. While better tanks were being made, this was put into the fight to help fill the number of missing tanks in British and American forces. It wasn’t the greatest, but it didn’t need to be and it did it’s job well

TheNorthie
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They took "were surrounded, good so we can shoot in all direction" to the next level.

hi_imken
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The British: "This thing is ugly, impractical, and is doomed failure in all possible ways...

*We'll take your entire stock."*

bedoboipdf
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Imagine going to your uncle's farm expecting the worst and seeing a M3 being used as a tractor

kasitrj
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“And if that don’t work...use more gun.”
-Engineer

CheezyIsEpic
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The grind with this tank to get the M4 is legendary.

occupationarmy
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The M3 is a perfect example of the philosophy of "A decent tank in the field is better than a perfect tank on the drawing board".

billmcsill
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Once again, you have proven that Bob Semple's tank was truly the cutting edge of superior design.

jeffcarrollshock
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America: Sent the M3 Lee to Australia
Australia: Finally we can beat the emus

leolin
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The amount of MG’s on the M2 is stereotypically American.

napoleonibonaparte
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When simple history animators were given additional budget for their animation

Minboelf
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WW2 was the only time when Lee, Grant, Sherman, Stuart fought together.

bahutai
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"Only Lee can have two gun cannon."'

- Sun Tzu

azj_
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“In Australia, the tanks were used as tractors...”

*Australian Farmer:* “THIS’LL TEACH YOU FOR RUINING MY ROOTS, WOMBATS! _FIRE!”_

Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache
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Now the Animation of Simple history is more Remastered

spinoboi
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The Lee tank is missing something


“Where is the general lee horn”

mugget
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Americans be like: if one gun isn't enough, just add another one!

thepuffin
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Can we just appreciate how far the animation has come along? Been a subscriber for years, and looking back it’s awesome to see their skills increase.

openthinker
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How many guns do you want on your tank?

Americans: yes

paleoph