Filmed in the world's only tank museum/Bird sanctuary.

A slight altercation kicked off in Europe. Well that's a lovely understatement.

The Lee/Grant is my favorite tank. It's just so delightfully weird.

"Anti-infantry death blossom machine gun vehicle of doom" Seriously dude, that is the T-shirt you ne3ee to be selling!

About the best thing I can say about this beast, aside from it's reliability and that it's well built, is that it looks cool as all Hell.

When in doubt, add another turret on top!

anti infantry death blossom of doom......and this I why I watch you.

Its a AIDBMGVD or as nick calls it, the Anti Infantry Death Blossom Machine Gun Vehicle of Doom

I love the M3, it’s my favourite tank

I hadn't watched this one, but was looking at the 1944 Burma campaign. Of course the Chieftain had done a tour. But the description of the M2 as a mobile machine gun nest with a 37mm gun on top to deal with tanks is precious. It made me chortle out loud.

Solid Last Starfighter reference. You get a thumbs up.

“Come 1939, a slight altercation kicked off in Europe...” Lololol!

Anybody see Sahara with Humphrey Bogart?

I don't think the music on the background is needed, especially while the host is talking.

Haha yes I've climbed inside that very tank in cairns, curater is a great bloke very friendly really good museum they even have a shooting range where you can shoot mg42's Brens etc.

2:18, why is the tank towing it's own personal bicycle wheel?

Yay, another one so soon! Thanks Chieftain!

My uncle commanded one in North Africa. At Kasserine, they rigged a cord to both triggers and fired straight ahead, at enemy infantry , until the belts were exhausted.

I love this thing in WOT. Yeah it's got that handicap of a turret and the strange main gun placement, but I didn't do too bad in it and when you survive a game, you get a sense of accomplishment in it. That feeling only increases when you do well in it! Lol!

Yes! I've wanted this for ages!

Will you at some point do a video or two on the Churchill tank?

Great series of videos Nick! I've been wondering: how did a tall lad like yourself get around the height restrictions for US army tankers? Do they have waivers for the tall yet determined?

It ❤️ was years before I realised that the Sherman was a Lee/Grant with a 75mm gun in a fully rotating turret. The same engine and suspension should have been a big clue. ❤️

Thanks. I know this is an older video but I finally got to it.

Amazing vid!!!

Something about this monstrosity of a machine is so charming to me. I wanna see it upgraded, with a welded hull, better engine, HVSS, and a reworked forward crew compartment to allow for better armor sloping, and possibly even more traverse for the 75mm.

Good enough for Humphrey Bogart,[Sgt. Joe Gunn] in Sahara, good enough for me...

Would love to see some vids on the M3 Stuart...

This was the first tank my dad fought in in N Africa.

@TheChieftainWoT Will you be doing the M36 Jackson at all in the future?

Can you hear the response of tank mechanics in early WWII being told they had a great 'user interface'. Hey, I'm not using my face to work on this thing.

Einfach genial. Klar komische Form hat er 😊. Aber er hat seine Sache trotz allem gemacht

gotta ask whats the point of what looks like a bicycle wheel sticking off the trailer htich of the M3 in the black and white photo at 2:16?

@TheChieftainWoT, the 'r' in Cairns is silent just to let you know

I hope you someday find an S-tank and talk about it, it's an interesting vehicle.

Anyone else super curious in what looks like a Churchill armored recovery vehicle in the background? 15:38

Hello Chieftain, always when I see such a thing as welded machine gun ports on this tank I wonder if those spots are actually harder to penetrate than the rest of the armor. When I think about sloped armor I wonder if there ever have been considerations about a plate fin armor type, where you apply additional armor with spaces in between (that are supposedly not being larger than an incoming, lets say, 75 mm projectile) . I am sure this question has already been answered somewhere, but I have not come across it yet. Thank you :).

Ooh, could you please do an episode on that specialist Churchill in the background?

Amazing to think the US went in just 4 years from fielding this M3 in 1941 to fielding the M24 in 1945. Although the Germans made some slight advances in those years also...

I really like the idea behind the M3, the lack of a coaxial machine gun seems to be the biggest problem it has. Was there insufficient room inside the turret for a 30 calibre? Maybe a slightly larger or redesigned turret might have been possible. Also I had no idea there was a museum like that in QLD, I really want to holiday in cairns now.

More MG's = more fun.

Please please please turn down the “music”. It adds nothing at all

You can't fool me - that's the Army Surplus Special.

I wonder what the crews of the Grant / Lee, with its 37mm gun, thought when they first came up against against a Tiger with a 88mm gun.

I wonder if they could have fit a 57 in this without too much work. That would have been interesting to see in action.

I seen the m3 grant tank at the Australian armoured artillery museum

When's part two coming out, can't get enough

What's that little camo thing with the iron cross in the background at the end of the video?

um wait wasn't part one already uploaded last week or whatever?

congratulations Wargaming, you made a perfectly good presentation unlistenable rubbish with your damn music.

Would love to see some vid on kpz70 or mbt 70.......heavy tank

I would have at least alluded to the story about BEF tanks facing Rommel in 1940 without an HE capability to counter 8.8 cm Flak guns. For all its faults, the M-3 could have changed the course of that particular battle and there were plenty of similar situations in North Africa.

I CAN'T W8 FOR PART 2

What is the (bicycle?) wheel behind the M3 used for at 2:16 ?

Hey Nick, do you post an announcement anywhere when you decide to stream?

When will we enter M4's hatch?

what happened to part two

Would it have been better if they had kept either just the 75 or just the 37?

The tripods are mounted whare you were standing on my model never seen one with them on the back

Greeting from morans of morington

Hey Nicolas the fuel tanks , in US or Imperial gallons? lol

H ah ..accurate description of an M2 Medium.

Lots of birds in Austrailia eh..? They do quite a lot of chirping

2:08 what is that bicycle tire on the. Back of the tank for?

I always thought this was a short 75 HE only. Apparently it's the same cannon as the Sherman M4?

What is the wheel at the back of the m3 lee on 2:15

What is that beast in front of the M3? Not the hetzer but the locomotive tank looking thing?

15:58 chieftain look out! your arch nemesis the jgpz 38(t) is right behind you!!!

I would so put another sponson on the other side, two more to the rear & regular M4 sherman turret on the top, just for the lulz :D Oh, and two MG casemates to the sides, one to the rear, one in rear turret face, four fixed MGs to the front and quad fifty for AA defence :D

Is it really true that the rivets could pop off and bounce around in tanks like these? Does anyone out there know if that's more than just a myth? I've heard it both ways and have always wondered....

This tank is great! In WarThunder...

is that the 3inch gun carrier in the background at the end

Those damn birds

They should have gave the driver a ball mount MG

Chieftain, what is that behemoth in the background @15:55?

Two missing bolts in front drive sprocket at 7:40

If they had squeezed another cannon on the other side - it would increased its cool factor .

I've been wondering what the turretless tank behind the Sexton(?) is since I saw this on the wot channel. A Ram Kangaroo?

Wasnt this the one called "A grave for 6 brothers" by the russians?

2:18 What is that bike wheel 4? Does anybody knows?

Hold up, what's the story behind the emo one? I'm loving the look of it

The Brits must of laughed their arsses off when we showed them this contraption. We redeemed ourselves the Sherman series

Im hoping we see where you can fit a girl volleyball team in the next episode :)

It's a mobile armoured and armed, garden shed.

what vehical was that behind him with the flak gun

srry chieftain for being late. i just loggin my WOT profile. i wanted to tank(thank) you for you service in the army. also to all the great vets in WOT. yous videos are awesome, and your bloopers are funny. keep enlightening us with the knowledge of tanks :D.

What is that tank to the right? AA ordenance? Huge elevation on that thing.

I'm not sure if this applies to you talking about the Grants 37mm stabilizer around 15:45, but the Shermans stabilizer had even more issues, I don't know if these would also apply to the Grant. Ordnances official line was that it "was not precise enough to permit the Sherman to fire on the move but rather helped the gunner keep the reticle on-target during movement, so that when the tank stopped to fire, the gun would already be roughly aimed in the right direction. Gunner who had been extensively trained on maintaining the gyrostabilizer felt that it was a worthwhile feature, but due to combat attrition, more and more replacement gunners were not familiar with the system, and it fell into disuse in some units in late 1944" - Source 'Panther vs Sherman: Battle of the Bulge 1944: Zaloga, Page 28' However the reality was much, much worse. 1.The gyrostabilizer took at least 5 minutes to spin up before it could be engaged. 2.Once it was spun up, the gyrostabilizer could not be left running for extended periods of time because of wear and tear on the system. 3.Before the gyrostabilizer could be used at all, it had to be calibrated. This process took a trained gun crew about 20 minutes to accomplish. 4.Calibration of the gyrostabilizer had to be performed at least daily, and more often under conditions in which temperatures were very low or very hot, when they changed much during the day. 5.Fine tuning the calibration could be done only when the main gun was fired. 6.Depending on many variables, fine tuning might require the discharge of one to three rounds on average. 7.Once the gyrostabilizer was fine tuned for HE rounds, for example, it had to be retuned to use a round of different weight like shot or smoke. 'TK-525 Operation and Maintenance of the Gyro-Stabilizer. Chassis Group, Tank Department, The Armored School, Ft. Knox, KY. (2-16-44-500)' Further reports suggested that not even trained crews used the thing, opposite to what Ordnance officers suggested who also possibly suggested it was much better than it actually was claimed to be in manuals. These reports seem to of been self-serving and intended to obscure the fact that the system was essentially worthless in combat. Not surprisingly they managed to leave out these few important details when claiming the gyrostabilizer worked just great when the crews were properly trained and motivated to use it.

That spg next to the m3 looks interesting

is that a Churchill crab behind you when you are on the roof of the grant

Nick, Did you play Comand Decision ? Didn't you live in Dublin ?

What was that M3/4 variant behind you? Looks like a howizter of some kind...

@ 9:20 -- Don't be daft! You don't disassemble the whole track to flip to the unworn treads, you unpin one link, loop the track around the other direction & mount it on the opposite side of the tank!

Is that a churchill bridgelayer in front of the grant?

💯🤟

Oh waw check the rubber pads on them tracks there totally gone!

What did Bogart use in the movie Sahara ?

What's with all those birds? Is the museum next to some kind of zoo?

Damn, 5-7 dudes in there, that's a sausage party

At 2:16 wheelie bar.