Pershing Tank : The M26 Pershing, American Heavy-Tank Development, World War II Combat, Korea, and the Road to the Patton

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Sep 2026, 2026

9798171082789

Serie: Libro 14 di 17 - Armored Legends Field Guide

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Neuware - Some tanks define an era through sheer numbers. Others reveal the moment an army begins to rethink what comes next. The M26 Pershing belongs to the second category: a vehicle shaped by wartime urgency, institutional debate, hard-earned battlefield lessons, and the need for greater firepower and protection as American armored warfare moved toward a new generation.Pershing Tank follows the complete story of the M26 from the experimental T20, T22, T23, T25, and T26 programs through production, European combat, Korea, specialist developments, and the transition toward the M46 Patton.Written in the established Armored Legends Field Guide style, this volume combines development history, combat evidence, crew experience, production realities, technical explanation, and historical interpretation in one focused narrative. Every design feature is connected to its real consequence: why it was adopted, how crews experienced it, how it affected reliability and battlefield employment, and what the U.S. Army ultimately learned from it.Inside, you will discover: - Why the Pershing took so long to reach combat, including the competing views of Ordnance, Army Ground Forces, and the changing requirement for a 90 mm-armed tank.- How the T20-series experiments became the T26E3 and M26, with the important design decisions, production changes, identification details, and lesser-known development paths that shaped the final vehicle.- What happened when Pershings finally went to war, from Zebra Mission and the famous fighting around Cologne to the Super Pershing, Korea, and encounters with the T-34-85.- How crews actually lived with the M26, including visibility, ammunition handling, maintenance, recovery, mobility, reliability, and the lessons that led directly toward the Patton generation.Along the way, the book examines overlooked prototypes, unusual field modifications, production decisions, mechanical compromises, and combat episodes that rarely receive more than a passing mention.By the final chapter, the Pershing becomes more than a late-war American tank. The reader can see how it connected two periods of U.S. armored development: the mass-production warfare of the Sherman era and the increasingly powerful, heavily armed tanks of the early Cold War.A compact, carefully researched field guide for military-history readers, tank enthusiasts, modelers, collectors, and anyone who wants to understand the Pershing beyond its specifications.…

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Titolo
Pershing Tank : The M26 Pershing, American Heavy-Tank Development, World War II Combat, Korea, and the Road to the Patton
Autore
Kurt Grant
Editore
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Sep 2026
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Condizione
Neu
Rilegatura
Taschenbuch
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 13
9798171082789
Peso dell'articolo
141 grammi
Dimensioni
229x152x5 mm
Serie
Libro 14 di 17: Armored Legends Field Guide

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