Army veteran Clarence Smoyer, the ‘Hero of Cologne’ who helped take the town of Cologne, Germany in March 1945 as tank gunner with the famous ‘Eagle 7’ M26 Pershing tank crew, finally received the ...
The American Heritage Museum, a museum that explores America’s wars from the Revolutionary War to today’s Global War on Terror, is sponsoring a fundraising sweepstakes benefitting the museum. Icons of ...
CAMP SHELBY, MS (WDAM) - The Mississippi Armed Forces Museum at Camp Shelby is now exhibiting a type of tank which played an important role in the Korean War. A fully restored, M26 Pershing tank has ...
The M26 Pershing was designed to counter Germany’s Panther and Tiger tanks, yet it reached combat only in the final months of World War II. This examination looks at how entrenched doctrine, internal ...
Few civilians understand what it feels like to climb into a military tank and squeeze into the cockpit. Even fewer have had the opportunity to grab ahold of the controls and actually drive one. The ...
Birmingham, Ala.-- A volunteer project to paint seven historic United States Army armor and cavalry vehicles that brought volunteer contractors from Virginia, Missouri, Florida, Alabama and Minnesota, ...