Sometimes, the greatest threat to a new weapon isn't the enemy, but its own commanders. This is the story of the M26 Pershing, America's powerful heavy tank designed to duel German Tigers and Panthers ...
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The M26 Pershing’s delayed debut: Politics, prototypes, and the race against German Panthers
The Pershing arrived in Europe in 1945 just in time to face Panthers and Tigers. Delays from politics, doctrine, and prototype setbacks meant this heavy tank arrived late, but its combat debut proved ...
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 ...
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