Even as the M4 Sherman entered production in 1942, the U.S. Army was already racing to replace it. The T20 tank program became a sprawling experiment in armor, firepower, and mobility, ultimately ...

In 1944, the US Army developed the T26E5, an upgraded M26 Pershing designed to counter Germany’s heaviest tanks like the ...

The American Heritage Museum, a museum that explores America’s wars from the Revolutionary War to today’s Global War on Terror, is sponsoring a fundraising sweepstakes benefitting the museum. Icons of ...

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 ...