The M26 Pershing was designed to challenge Panthers and Tigers with heavier armor and a powerful 90 mm gun. Yet despite being available before the war ended, it reached the battlefield surprisingly ...

CAMP SHELBY, MS (WDAM) - The Mississippi Armed Forces Museum at Camp Shelby is now exhibiting a type of tank which played an important role in the Korean War. A fully restored, M26 Pershing tank has ...

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 ...

Better protected and better armed than the M4 Sherman, the Heavy Tank M26 Pershing sacrifices mobility for power. Armed with a powerful 90mm main gun, the Pershing is considered to be an equal terms ...