BOOKS - MILITARY HISTORY - Osprey New Vanguard 33 - M3 & M5 Stuart Light Tank 1940-45
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Osprey New Vanguard 33 - M3 & M5 Stuart Light Tank 1940-45
Author: Steven J. Zaloga
Year: 1999
Number of pages: 48
Format: PDF
File size: 16,1 MB
Language: ENG
Year: 1999
Number of pages: 48
Format: PDF
File size: 16,1 MB
Language: ENG
The M3 and M5 family of light tanks were the culmination of American tank development of the 1930s. By the time of the outbreak of the World War II, they were approaching obsolescence, as tank forces in Europe were shifting from light to medium tanks as the main element of their armored forces. First entering combat in the autumn of 1941 in the Western Desert with the British Army, the Stuart quickly proved its inadequacies.