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The M26 Pershing is a heavy tank, later designated as a medium tank, [nb 1] formerly used by the United States Army. It was used in the last months of World War II during the Invasion of Germany and extensively during the Korean War .
M7A1 rifle grenade launcher for M1 Garand; M8 rifle grenade launcher for M1 Carbine; M9/A1 HEAT (high-explosive anti-tank) rifle grenade; M17A1 illumination rifle grenade; M18A1 illumination rifle grenade; M28 anti-tank rifle grenade (copy of the ENERGA anti-tank rifle grenade) M26 fragmentation hand grenade; Mark I illumination hand grenade
This is a list of military equipment used in the Korean War. Vehicle. United Nations ... M26 Pershing; Centurion tank; Churchill tank ... M18 recoilless rifle; M1903 ...
Notable weapons: M10 Wolverine, M4 Sherman Tank, M26 Pershing Tank Fisher Tank Arsenal opened in 1942 in Michigan, and throughout World War II it was responsible for producing over 12,000 tanks.
The anti-aircraft guns were phased out in the middle 1950s as their role was taken over by surface-to-air missiles such as the MIM-3 Nike Ajax. [3] 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.
American M26 Pershing tanks in downtown Seoul during the Second Battle of Seoul. In the foreground, UN troops round up North Korean prisoners-of-war US Marines engaged in urban warfare during the battle for Seoul in late September 1950.
The Pershing and its derivative M46 Patton were credited with almost half of the North Korean T-34s destroyed by U.S. tanks. [14] Being underpowered and unreliable in the mountainous Korean terrain, all M26 Pershings were withdrawn from Korea in 1951 and replaced with M4 Shermans and M46 Pattons. [15]
The M47 was the U.S. Army's and Marine Corps' primary tank, intended to replace the M26 Pershing and M46 Patton medium tanks. [note 1] The M47 was widely used by U.S. Cold War allies, both SEATO and NATO countries, and was the only Patton series tank that never saw combat while in US service.