M3 as a gun tank. : One captured during operations in 1942; later recaptured by the Red Army. 896 M3s were received, a mix of new delivery and shipments from N Africa: 517 Lee I and 379 Grant I. : Four captured in Crimea during operations in early 1944 1,386 M3 supplied. 1,685 Grant and 1,202 Lee supplied. These figures include tanks shipped directly to India and Australia. 657 Grant and 75 Lee were supplied directly to N Africa with 97 Grant and 119 Lee supplied directly to the UK. In popular culture In the 1943 movie Sahara, starring Humphrey Bogart, the character's main form of transportation was an M3 Lee named "Lulu Belle"; the same is true of the 1995 remake starring Jim Belushi. An M3 Lee tank (also named "Lulu Belle") was featured in the 1979 Steven Spielberg comedy film 1941. In the anime Girls und Panzer, the M3 Lee is used by the Rabbit Team, of Ōarai Academy. See also SCR-245 List of "M" series military vehicles List of U.S. military vehicles by supply catalog designation Notes Explanatory footnotes Citations General references Bishop, Chris The Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II (2002) Metro Books. Hunnicutt, R. P. Sherman, A History of the American Medium Tank. 1978; Taurus Enterprises. . Porter, David Allied Tanks of World War II (World's Great Weapons) (2014) Amber Books Ltd. USMC D-F Series Tables of Equipment (TOEs), 1942-1944 . . Zaloga, Steven. Armored Thunderbolt: The US Army Sherman in World War II. 2008; Stackpole Books. . Further reading External links British M3, M3A2, M3A3 and M3A5 Grants "U.S. Army's 29 ton tanks packs a 75mm gun" Popular Mechanics, July 1941—one of the first public articles about the M-3 Tanks Are Mighty Fine Things, 1946 : 145-page book about wartime production of tanks by Chrysler Corporation, including the M3. AFV Database World War II Vehicles M3, M3A1, M3A3, M3A4 at OnWar M3 in the USSR Medium tanks of the United States Military vehicles introduced from 1940 to 1944 World War II medium tanks Lee Grant, M3