 Honey tanks
The M5 version had fewer machine-guns than the M3, but fewer rivets. The rivets had a cute trick in battle of being knocked out by shells and flying around the inside of the tank, smacking crewmembers, with grave results.
A speedy machine, but its 37mm gun was inferior to German and Italian weapons. On the other hand, the US Marines won the Battle of the Tenaru-Ilu-Alligator Creek at Guadalcanal when their five M3 Stuart tanks charged the Japanese defenders, who lacked anti-tank weapons, crushing the Japanese attack force...literally.
A good reconnaissance machine, speedy, mobile, it was not a main battle tank.
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