The M26 Pershing is a heavy tank/medium tank formerly used by the United States Army. It was used in the last months of World War II during the Invasion...
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Tanks of the United States (section M26 Pershing)
be effective. The M26 Pershing Heavy Tank came into service in 1945 under the designation of M26 Heavy Tank with the name "Pershing" named after General...
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shotgun system M26 motorway, a motorway in the United Kingdom M26 Pershing, an American tank used during World War II and the Korean War M26 Tractor, a component...
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Shermans, 309 M26 Pershings, and 138 M24 Chaffee light tanks. Subsequent shipments of M46 and M46A1 Pattons allowed all remaining M26 Pershings to be withdrawn...
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The M46 Patton is an American medium tank designed to replace the M26 Pershing and M4 Sherman. It was one of the U.S Army's principal medium tanks of the...
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U.S. Army's and Marine Corps' primary tank, intended to replace the M26 Pershing and M46 Patton medium tanks. The M47 was widely used by U.S. Cold War...
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U.S. ballistic missile M26 Pershing, U.S. tank Pershing boot, a type of boot used by U.S. soldiers in World War I Pershing Rifles, U.S. college military...
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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...
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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...
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The closest counterpart to the Tiger from the United States was the M26 Pershing (around 200 deployed to the European Theater of Operations (ETO) during...
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An Eagle. Pershing is one of the main characters in Jeffrey Shaara's novel To the Last Man. General Pershing WWI casualty list M26 Pershing tank MGM-31...
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common parts with the M26 Pershing. Despite its promising performance during the final stages of World War II, the M26 Pershing was thought to be too...
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damage. For example, the initial turret design of the Panther, Tiger II, M26 Pershing and KV-1 tanks had shot traps. The lower edge of the curved mantlet acted...
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Tiger I; the Soviets used the IS-2 heavy tank and the U.S. used the M26 Pershing as the heavy tanks of their forces instead. Dimensions, road speed and...
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had weaker anti-tank combat capability compared to the larger caliber M26 Pershing and the M46 Patton that were operated at the same time. However, the...
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"Armor" branch collar insignia, which consists of the front view of a U.S. M26 Pershing tank superimposed over two crossed sabers, replaces the WWII collar insignia...
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Death Traps (section The Sherman and Pershing tanks)
Patton, to favor the smaller M4 Sherman medium tank over the heavier M26 Pershing, which Cooper describes as being "in every way far superior".: 26 Cooper...
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testing in 1944. However, a heavy tank design, the T26 (known later as the M26 Pershing) was instead put into production, also wielding the 90 mm gun M3. The...
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Tank M3 Lee M4 Sherman M22 Locust M24 Chaffee Marmon-Herrington CTLS M26 Pershing Cold War M41 Walker Bulldog M46 Patton M103 T57 T110 M47 Patton M48 Patton...
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was getting obsolete and was in the process of being replaced by the M26 Pershing and the upgraded M46 Patton. These tanks, however, were still very similar...
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sturdy enough to be able to mount a 100 mm (3.9 in) cannon. The American M26 Pershing, a medium tank of 40 short tons (36 t; 36 long tons) to replace the M4...
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Ground Force. Successive evolution of the basic design culminated in the M26 Pershing. Almost immediately after the M4 Sherman was standardized, the US Ordnance...
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development and adoption of numerous weapons, including the M4 Sherman and M26 Pershing tanks, the DUKW amphibious truck, the Bell H-13 Sioux helicopter, and...
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as the 90mm Gun Tank: M48. It was designed as a replacement for the M26 Pershing, M4 Sherman, M46 and M47 Patton tanks, and was the main battle tank of...
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Tank M3 Lee M4 Sherman M22 Locust M24 Chaffee Marmon-Herrington CTLS M26 Pershing Cold War M41 Walker Bulldog M46 Patton M103 T57 T110 M47 Patton M48 Patton...
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were few in number. Near the end of World War II, a few early model M26 Pershings were sent to Europe to gain combat experience. Aside from these the...
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the M26 Pershing were also rushed into combat in late February 1945. A dramatic newsreel film was recorded by a U.S. Signal Corps cameraman of an M26 stalking...
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M4A3(105) HVSS (2,539), M10A1 (1,413), and M7B1 (826). The GAF powered the M26 (2,222), M26A1, T28/T95 (2), and M45 (185). The GAN powered the T23 (248)...
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the M4, M26, and M46. The heavier M26 Pershing was deemed unsatisfactory due to its inferior mobility, and in November, 1949, the upgraded M26 received...
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Tank M3 Lee M4 Sherman M22 Locust M24 Chaffee Marmon-Herrington CTLS M26 Pershing Cold War M41 Walker Bulldog M46 Patton M103 T57 T110 M47 Patton M48 Patton...
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