German Tankers Faced M26 Pershings — Then Admitted Their 90mm Gun Out Ranged Tiger IIs
Автор: Unexpected Victory
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April 21, 1945 — Dessau, Germany. Amid the rubble of a collapsing Reich, one tank rolled forward unlike any other: the T26E4 Super Pershing, the only one of its kind to see combat in Europe. Staff Sergeant Joseph Madria and his crew didn’t know they were about to write one of World War II’s most debated legends — the supposed duel between America’s new heavy tank and Germany’s fearsome King Tiger.
But behind the myth lay a deeper, more revealing truth. The Super Pershing wasn’t just a battlefield curiosity — it was the physical answer to a mathematical problem that had haunted Allied armor since Normandy: range versus penetration, armor versus mobility, survival versus firepower. And when the numbers were finally tested under fire, they told a story far more complex than propaganda or postwar memoirs ever admitted.
This video uncovers the real history of the Super Pershing, separating legend from logistics — and revealing what this one tank’s brief combat career said about America’s late-war design philosophy, battlefield adaptation, and the desperate race to outgun the Tiger before the war ended.
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