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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 ...
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
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
The M26 Pershing heavy tank had heavier armor, a more powerful gun, and improved torsion bar suspension compared to the Sherman. The main armament of the M26 Pershing was its 90 mm gun. Secondary .30-06 machine guns were mounted co-axially in the turret and in the bow. [b] A .50 BMG heavy machine gun was mounted on top of the turret.
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.
Line drawing of the M47. Although a new power plant corrected the mobility and reliability problems of the M26 Pershing, the subsequently renamed M46 was considered a stopgap solution that would be replaced later by the T42 medium tank. However, after fighting erupted in Korea, the Army decided it needed the new tank earlier than planned.
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.
The Pershing heavy tank (named after General Pershing) was the only heavy tank used in combat by the US armed forces during World War II. An earlier design, the Heavy Tank M6, was not accepted for large scale production and only 40 were produced.