They were primarily mounted on tanks, such as the M3 Lee and M4 Sherman, but one variant was also used as an air-to-ground gun on the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber aircraft. There were five main variants used during the war: M2, M3, M4, M5 and M6. They were considered the standard American tank guns.

The M3 Gun Motor Carriage (M3 GMC) was a United States Army tank destroyer equipped with a 75 mm M1897A4 gun, which was built by the Autocar Company during World War II.

75MM M3 Gun Information Page: A Fine Canon for Fine Tank. The 75mm M3 gun gets a lot of flak for being a short barrel low-velocity gun and no good for anti-tank work. This is simply false and usually comes from someone who has read a bad book like Death Traps.

The M3 Gun was a natural choice for the main gun on the Sherman. The guns long lineage as an infantry gun goes back to the French Canon De 75 modele 1897 field gun .

A restored Mitchell aircraft showing a 75 mm M5 gun below the four machine guns. An M3 is lifted out of a Sherman tank at 5th Indian Division's tank workshop near Taungtha, Burma, 29 March 1945. The US 75 mm gun was the standard American gun …

The M3 Gun Motor Carriage (GMC) was an early tank destroyer designed to carry the 75 mm M1897A4 gun, converted from the regular White M3 Half Track by the Autocar Company. It was produced for a limited time, until better solutions were devised.

Nov 5, 2022 · Created in January 1943 as a proof of concept, the 75 mm Gun M3 on 75 mm HMC M8 Chassis was an experimental American tank destroyer.

The M3 75mm gun was a great tank gun for the time the Sherman was first introduced to combat and was based on a well-liked WWI French field gun. When it first saw combat it could punch through any German tank it faced, from just about any angle.

The US 75 mm gun tank gun M2 and the later M3 were the standard American tank guns of the Second World War. Besides use on the two main American medium tanks of the war the M3 Lee (M2 or M3 gun) and the M4 Sherman (M3 gun). The lightweight M6 and M5 variants were developed to equip the Light...

The M2 and M3 are derived vehicle mounted howitzers used in the 75mm HMC M8 and some LVT models. In addition, the M1 in its original version was mated to a number of other self-propelled carriages, though only one of those – 75mm HMC T30 – reached mass production.