Re: M5 Stewart - nope!

From: Douglas Greville (dgrev@ruralnet.net.au)
Date: Fri Jan 25 2002 - 14:16:56 PST


John

> The Fort Snelling Military Museum is in the process of restoring a Stewart
> tank.

Sorry, but no such thing.

The M3/M5 series of light tanks was named by the British using their
system of naming US sourced tanks after US Generals of a couple of
centuries ago. eg Stuart, Lee/Grant, Sherman and so on.

The one you are refering to is a "Stuart".
 
Regards
Doug

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