The M26 Pershing was designed to counter Germany’s Panther and Tiger tanks, yet it reached combat only in the final months of ...
In the closing weeks of World War II, the United States finally committed its heaviest tank to combat. The M26 Pershing ...
Key point: In the 1940s and 1950s, the Soviets, British, and French all fielded heavy tanks. The United States had fielded the forty-six-ton M-26 Pershing at the the end of World War II ...