Sahara (1943 American film)
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Sahara is a 1943 American action war film directed by Zoltán Korda and starring Humphrey Bogart as an American tank commander in Libya who, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an
M3 medium tank of the type used in the film.
M3 Lee
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The M3 Lee, officially Medium Tank, M3, was an American medium tank used during World War II. The turret was produced in two different forms, one for US needs and one modified to British requirements
Sahara (1943 American film)
…dinners. No women appear in the film. Bogart's character makes reference to events that occurred in May–June 1942. The British had received many American M3 tanks (the tank seen in the film), and a small group of American advisors and crews trained them in the use of the equipment. The British were routed at the…
The armor plate on the M3 was too heavy for welding and had to be riveted in position.
Crew exiting a "disabled" M3 tank during training maneuvers held at Camp Polk in February 1943
British Grant (left) and Lee (right) at El Alamein (in the Egyptian Western Desert) 1942, showing differences between the British turret and the original design of the M3