In March 1945, a rare combat encounter unfolded in the streets of Cologne as an American M26 Pershing engaged a German ...

In the final months of World War II, an American tank entered combat that German crews did not immediately recognize. It ...

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 ...