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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
LOL...the Brits named the Grant and Lee, as well as the Stuart, Sherman, Locust, Staghound and Greyhound. Pershing is the only one that was named by the Yanks.
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The Russians referred to the M-3 Lee/Grants they received as "a coffin for six brothers".
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Both vehicles started out with the short-barreled M-2 75mm (this is the one with the large counterweight bolted to the muzzle end). This was replaced with the M-3 long-barreled 75mm (same one as fitted to the Sherman).
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Although the sponson mount of the 75mm gun gave it very limited traverse and it was low-velocity, at the time it was the only allied tank to mount a 75mm gun (some British tanks replaced their 2-pdrs with 3" howitzers for close support work, but these had an even lower velocity than the M-3's 75mm gun and were not very useful for AT work).