In early 1942, as the first M4 Shermans entered service, American designers were already planning a superior tank, leading to ...
The M26 Pershing was built to face German Tigers and Panthers—but it arrived in Europe only in the final months of the war.
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 ...