Deployed in the final weeks of WWII, the M26 Pershing was thrust straight into action near Elsdorf and Cologne—facing Tiger tanks, urban warfare, and the chaotic rush toward the Rhine. From its ...

In the closing chapters of World War II, two tanks faced off that would come to define postwar armored doctrine—the American M26 Pershing and the Soviet T-34-85. Though they rarely clashed directly, ...