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An M26 Pershing T26E3 of A Company, 14th Tank Battalion, is transported aboard a pontoon ferry built by the First Engineer Heavy Pontoon Battalion across the Rhine on 12 March 1945. On the same day, another T26E3 was knocked out in the town of Niehl near Cologne, by a rarely-seen Nashorn 88 mm tank destroyer , at a range of under 300 yd (270 m ...
The history of National Book Store can be traced back to the 1930s. [1] However, the company has been formally established in 1942. Before the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II, José Ramos and Socorro Cáncio-Ramos, rented a small-corner space of a Haberdashery situated at the foot of Escolta Bridge in Santa Cruz, Manila.
U.S. Medium Tank M26 Pershing: 2005: No [11] - 32538: Russian Heavy Tank KV-2 Gigant: 2006: No [12] Rebox from 32535 with new turret 32539: German King Tiger Porsche Turret: 2006: No: Rebox from 32536 with new parts 32540: German Sturmgeschütz III Ausf. G (Sd.Kfz. 142/1) Frühe Version: 2006: No [13] Rebox from 32525 with new parts 32541
The T32 heavy tank was a heavy tank project started by the United States Army to create an appropriate successor to the M4A3E2 Sherman "Jumbo".The US Ordnance board managed the production of four prototypes, the main goal being to have the new tank share many common parts with the M26 Pershing.
M26 tractor + M15 trailer. Used from 1944 to 1945; M26 tractor, 12-ton, armored cab. Component of the Dragon Wagon tank transporter; M27 bomb service, GMC CCKW 2½-ton 6×6 truck; M28 unknown; M29 unknown; M30 signal corps repair, GMC CCKW 2½-ton 6×6 truck; M31 signal corps repair, GMC CCKW 2½-ton 6×6 truck
Eagle 7 was an M26 Pershing tank used by the American Army's 3rd Armored Division near the end of World War II, notable for a tank battle in front of the Cologne Cathedral and the belated award of the Bronze Star to its crew.
McNair approved the 76 mm upgrade to the M4 Sherman and production of the 90 mm gun-armed M36 tank destroyer, but he at first staunchly opposed mass production of the T20 medium tank series and its descendants, the T25 and T26 (which would eventually become the M26 Pershing) during the crucial period of 1943 because they did not meet the two ...
As a tank gun it was the main weapon of the M36 tank destroyer and M26 Pershing tank, as well as a number of post-war tanks like the M56 Scorpion. It was also briefly deployed from 1943–1946 as a coast defense weapon with the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps. Each gun cost roughly $50,000 to make in 1940 and utilized up to 30 separate ...