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Just 8 months earlier arriving in Europe and the Pershing would have been the Best Tank of WW2! Too little too late. In Korea 5 years later it dominated T-34/85s which had dominated Tigers and Panthers.
It’s a pity that people like Lt Gen McNeir delayed development of the Pershing and did not take advantage of the British experience in North Africa. To confront the Tiger and Panther they could have fitted the Pershing with the superior to the US 90mm gun British 17 pounder gun and the British 600-650 hp Meteor, derivative of the Merlin aircraft engine (instead of the Ford GAF engine with 450 hp, same as the much lighter Sherman), after all the US produced thousands of Packard/Merlin engines. The Centurion, which became the best after-WW2 MBT into the 60ies, was equipped in 1945 with the 17pounder and the Meteor.
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I just finished reading Spearhead. It chronicles one specific US Army tank gunner through Europe, and the closing days of WWII, as he served on an M26. I highly recommend it.
Great video! Thanks for letting us see through the gun sight & periscope! I went to the Wright museum when I was on vacation in August of 2018 but the Pershing tank was not on display. I asked where it went and was told it was in the shop for repairs. I hope to get back there again someday to see it. It was great to see the Sherman tank though and everything else that day.
It is underpowered, having problematic transmission, and tank cannon technology has progressed. Which is why it evolved into the M46 Patton. Just check it out. It offers many more capabilities while retaining the same silhouette as the Pershing.
Had there been a stronger commitment to the M26 early in WW2 it would have lowered tanker casualties. That's because in any ambush of an American tank column, the Germans would have hit one or two M26/46's mixed in with the Sherman's first. M26/46 crews would have had a better chance to survive while the Sherman's took care of business.
@@peterson7082 I base that on the fact that the Germans were defending a held position - especially in France's open country. As such, they usually knew when Allied tank columns were approaching so they would position their tanks / anti-tank weapons in an ambush which provided a clean shot into the thinner side armor of the Sherman.
This video is a bit ironic from the standpoint that it was almost always the other way around; the Sherman was very reliable and was usually towing the M26, which was plagued with mechanical issues.
I often forget how much of a beast most ww2 tanks are... mostly because I only see them on paper and the statistics against other tanks aka sherman vs tiger.
The M26 was the basis for the M46-M60 series tanks. The M1 was based on the MBT-70 tank platform, which was an entirely new design concept, & intended to replace the M-60 series tanks.
@@shadovanish7435 the rolling stock is almost identical to the M60 though. The rolling stock is like a cross between M60 and M103, which was also ultimately derived from the M26. Basically all of our torsion bar tanks after the M26 can tie their lineage back to the M26.
@@wun1gee Yes, the suspension design of the M1 is a lineage from the M-26; I probably should have noticed that. The suspension design of the M26 was a major departure from the suspension design of the M3 & M4 series tanks. However, the M18 & M24 tanks had a more visually similar suspension design (road wheel arrangement) to the M-26, but I don't know if these tanks (M18 & M-24) used torsion bar suspension.
Both. In development until October, 1944 it was a medium tank, from prototyping until early service until May, 1946, it was a heavy tank, then redesignated a medium afterwards.
The pershing tank gave way to lending its name to a nuclear missile. When I was younger, I loved the tanks. But when the missile came out, I changed my mos. I loved the missile. Man it was a challenge.
🙄 They say the M26 was underpowered in WW2. Well, it's no wonder! Each M26 had to pull its own weight, and it had to pull a Sherman around the battlefield! I remember our commander's orders just as we were about to cross the bridge to attack the Germans..... He said, "I need you to take 16 tanks across the bridge along with infantry support. How long before you're ready to go?" I looked at him and said, "sir, we'll be ready in under 10 minutes. We just need to get the 8 tow chains hooked up to the 8 Shermans, and we'll be ready to go"... He said, "that's good news captain... Start assaulting the bridge on my order.... Three, two, one, START TOWING"! 😅👍 Every day in Germany, I remember thinking, why don't they just put engines and transmissions in the M4, so they could be self propelled instead of needing to be towed everywhere!? 🤔
Gasoline powered??? I'm a tanker from the late 70s. My mount was an M 60A1. Diesel. But at my unit in late 1978 were still gasoline powered M 88s! Loud as Hell and shot blue flames out the rear!!!
All the U.S. tanks of World War II were gasoline powered with the exception of the M4A2 version of the Sherman. The Marine Corps used this model as the LVTs were also diesel powered. Many M4A2s were also provided to the Soviet Army which loved them being much more reliable than the T-34 or KV-1.
Historical fact: this tank was designed to chase and defeat German armor as one of their mains roles, becoming among the first early mbts of all times. It's curious how it succeeds by becoming the basis for the m46-47-48-60 mbts line
If I was suddenly transported back in time and was an American tank crewman in World War Two or perhaps the Korea War, I'd want to go into harm's way in an M-26 Pershing. Failing that, I'd choose an M36 "Jackson" tank-destroyer. Not much protection, but at least a hard-hitting gun capable of hurting the enemy.
In Korea, following 1951 you wouldn't have much of a choice- they retired the _M26A1_ for it to only be replaced by the _M4_ it replaced and the _M46_ its successor.
