Eighty years on from the battle that decisively pushed the Nazis back from the eastern front, German panzers are about to meet a new generation of Russian tanks.
Meet the M26 Pershing: The World War II Super Tank
The M26 would have helped beat the Nazis, but the new tank would not be produced and transported in time.
Key point: The Allies during and after D-Day could really have used the M26. However, that tank would not see action until the Korean War.
“We had been assured by our officers before we invaded France in 1944,” recorded Bill Harris, “that our Sherman tanks could take care of any Nazi armor we met there.”
This first appeared earlier and is being reposted due to reader interest.
Harris, a tank gunner in the U.S. 2nd Armored Division, had been told over and over again that the American M4 Sherman Medium Tank (the Allies’ main battle tank) was as good, if not superior, to any armored fighting vehicle in the Wehrmacht’s arsenal. Unfortunately for hundreds of U.S. and Allied tankers, including Harris, who had three Shermans shot from under him during the war in Western Europe, the nine savage weeks of fighting in the