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Title: Tank stuff M-26 and others
Post by: WWhiskey on April 11, 2011, 08:55:05 PM
(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg229/WWhiskey/game%20stuff%20and%20other/m2603aspecs045ys.jpg)

from here   scroll down a bit!  http://www.ww2incolor.com/forum/showthread.php?4730-M26-Pershing-Tank

(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg229/WWhiskey/game%20stuff%20and%20other/m2603ax9wv.jpg)


Only three days before the 3rd Armored Division's final combat action of WWII, a Super Pershing of the 33rd Armored Regiment met and defeated the most powerful and most heavily armored German tank of the war - the legendary 77-ton King Tiger, also known as the Tiger II or Tiger Royal. It would be the first and only meeting between a King Tiger and the Super Pershing, a modified standard M26 Pershing weighing 53 tons - an almost "secret" tank that, to this day, remains largely an enigma to military historians..

Yea I thought about putting it on the Wishlist.

 http://www.ww2incolor.com/forum/showthread.php?4730-M26-Pershing-Tank
Title: Re: Tank stuff M-26 and others
Post by: bortas1 on April 12, 2011, 11:11:20 AM
Quote from: WWhiskey on April 11, 2011, 08:55:05 PM
(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg229/WWhiskey/game%20stuff%20and%20other/m2603aspecs045ys.jpg)

from here   scroll down a bit!  http://www.ww2incolor.com/forum/showthread.php?4730-M26-Pershing-Tank

(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg229/WWhiskey/game%20stuff%20and%20other/m2603ax9wv.jpg)


Only three days before the 3rd Armored Division's final combat action of WWII, a Super Pershing of the 33rd Armored Regiment met and defeated the most powerful and most heavily armored German tank of the war - the legendary 77-ton King Tiger, also known as the Tiger II or Tiger Royal. It would be the first and only meeting between a King Tiger and the Super Pershing, a modified standard M26 Pershing weighing 53 tons - an almost "secret" tank that, to this day, remains largely an enigma to military historians..

Yea I thought about putting it on the Wishlist.

 http://www.ww2incolor.com/forum/showthread.php?4730-M26-Pershing-Tank
truly a nice find. i didnt know the pershing was considered a havey tank. thank you.
 :salute bortas
Title: Re: Tank stuff M-26 and others
Post by: Yeager on April 12, 2011, 09:21:39 PM
The greatest tragedy of american armor in WW2 was the stalling the oridnance dept did regarding the mass production of the M26 in time to make the Dday landings.

Here is a look at a Pershing in Action late WW2 Germany.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt5bJQOkI1g