Editing M3 Stuart (section)

==== Limitations of the 37mm gun ====
On 9 December 1944, the [[759th Tank Battalion (United States)|759th Tank Battalion]] advanced on a hill near [[Kreuzau|Bogheim]] but was subjected to a counter-attack by German forces, including a heavy self-propelled [[assault gun]], which took "over 100 direct hits" at ranges as low as {{convert|75|yd|m|abbr=on}} with "no appreciable damage".<ref>{{cite report |archive-date=17 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917135704/http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4013coll8/id/3930 |url=http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4013coll8/id/3930 |title=After action report, 759th Light Tank Battalion, July 44 through March 45 |date=4 May 1945 |page=27 |access-date=19 June 2017 |via=Ike Skelton Combined Arms Research Library}}</ref>

In January 1945, a report to General Eisenhower concluded that the Stuart was "obsolete in every respect as a fighting tank" and that it would not "turn the German fire [n]or [would] the 37mm gun damage the German tanks or SP guns".<ref>{{cite book|last=Zaloga |first=Steven J.|title=US Armored Divisions – The European Theater of Operations, 1944–45|series=Battle Orders 3|year=2004|publisher=Osprey |isbn=978-1-84176-564-8|page=34}}</ref>