Editing M3 Stuart (section)

====Italy====
One of the more successful uses of the M5 in combat came during the [[Battle of Anzio]] when breaking through German forces surrounding the beachhead. The tactics called for an initial breakthrough by a medium tank company to destroy the heavier defenses, followed by an infantry battalion who would attack the German troops who were being left behind the medium tanks. Since many hidden fortifications and positions would have survived the initial medium tank assault, the infantry would then be confronted by any remaining fortified German troops. Behind the infantry came the M5s of a light tank company, who would attack these positions when directed to by the Infantry, usually by the use of green [[smoke grenades]].<ref>[http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cdm/singleitem/collection/p4013coll8/id/4676/rec/50 Training memorandum number 2: lessons from the Italian Campaign] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127213401/http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cdm/singleitem/collection/p4013coll8/id/4676/rec/50 |date=27 January 2020 }}, page 47 of 162, March 1945</ref>

In the 1944 Liri Valley campaign, the official history of the [[18th Battalion (New Zealand)]] notes that in the campaign (a war of movement) the regiment discovered that the Stuart recce tanks were an enormous advance on scout cars, and could go where not even jeeps could go. They carried commanders and engineers, and medical orderlies, and they could explore flanks while the Shermans forged ahead. They carried mobile wireless links and transported supplies up hilltops; they had a dozen different uses.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2-18Ba-c33.html |title= Beyond the Liri (page 491) |publisher=  NZETC |date= 2023}}</ref>