Super Pershing vs King Tiger Duel 1945

The Pershing t26e3 was sent to Europe in December 1944 after American experiences at the Battle of the Bulge and elsewhere, as there was a serious discrepancy between American armor in the form of the M4 Sherman and various models of tank destroyers and the most heavy German Panther Tiger. and two Tiger tanks, however, due to delays, only 20 personnel reached Europe in January

1945

. They were divided between the 3rd and 9th Armored Divisions during their advance towards the Rhine River in their combat debut in the town of Elle's Dorf on February 25,

1945

. The T26 was knocked out by a Tiger, although another T26 knocked out two Panzer Fours and a Tiger during the battle.

I made a movie about this so check the description box for a more famous link March 6, 1945 a t26e3 of the 3rd Armored Division had a gem with a panther tank outside the Cologne Cathedral and by please also see my movie about this in the description below; However, on the same day t26e3 was knocked out by Anna's Horn tank destroyer at Neil, near Cologne, the subject of another of My Movies linked below The Americans experimented with the notion of increasing the caliber of the Pershing's gun and the thickness of the armor and a single gun version of the t26e3.

The Super Pershing saw action in Europe in the final weeks of World War II. A mystery surrounds its combat record, but it definitely scored two top 10 combat kills, so a single example of a

super

Pershing was shipped to Europe very late in the war. Upon arrival, engineers increased its armor by adding additional plates to the gun mantlet and the vehicle's front hull. Now the largest and most powerful tank in the Allied inventory was assigned to the Third Armored Division. The attack power of the tanks was immense. The 90-millimeter M3 gun was similar to the 8-millimeter AZ Tiger KWK 36 and could penetrate the frontal armor of a Panther up to 2,600 yards or 2,400 meters, the boiler plates were each 38 millimeters thick and were placed in the front part of the

super

Pershing so that they would attach to the tank's armor.

The forward hull was protected to a depth of one hundred and seventy-eight millimeters. The turret was improved. the addition of an 80 millimeter thick section of rolled homogeneous armor from the upper glacis of a captured Panther tank. So how did the Pershing fare in action serving with Company I? 33rd Armored Regiment, part of the 3rd Armored Division Task Force. Well-born confusion reigns over the identification of Super Pershing's opponents. On April 7, 1945, Super Pershing engaged a large German armored fighting vehicle that had shot down several Sherman tanks firing across the Vaser River, near of bad cows; the German vehicle was pure panzer ab Tile in 507 and initial reports suggested that the German tank was a

tiger

: the super Pershing joined the battle and engaged the German vehicle at a distance of 1,500 yards, a violent explosion of ammunition and the German vehicle was destroyed.

The German tank has been identified as a Yad Panther tank destroyer and several were attached to the Sofia Panzer Upsilon 507. On 21 April, the super Pershing participated in the capture of Dessau during the operation, the Pershing engaged in a brief

duel

with a tank German described as a

tiger

. one or even the tiger 2 the problem has been the identification of the enemy vehicle us. Tank crews often labeled any late-war German tank as a tiger moving toward DES since the super Pershing turned a corner and headed straight into the sights of a lur

king

German tank before continuing, the Remaining German units in the area no longer had Tigers at this stage.

Panzer AB Thailand 507 had lost its last tiger 2 in oscoda on April 11 Shriya hepanza ab tiling fkl 301 had blown up its last tiger 1 on April 17 the young tiger equipped by panzerjäger in thailand v 1 2 had surrendered its last vehicles to Although alone on 15 April, no other German units reported one or two active Tigers at this time, however interviews conducted with Germans after the battle found that several were from a unit called Panzer Transport West. The suggestion made by several historians is that this unit had been moving only Tiger that this tank had been thrown into Daesil's defense the main witness to the action was Super Gunner Corporal Pershing x' Jack Irwin who identified the enemy tank as a Tiger and not a

king

tiger this is actually a problem because American tank crews very often identified the more mundane German tanks, such as the Panzer 4, as a tiger.

We can certainly rule out the Tiger II or King Tiger from the equation. The nearest King Tiger at the time was 70 miles to the east, fighting the Red Army. As for the Berlin Owens Tiger being a real Tiger tank, this also seems quite unlikely, probably according to many historians it was simply a Panza anyway, back in action at Dessau, so the Super Pershing turns the corner and is faces a German tank that the crew was expecting action against German infantry buildings or anti-tank guns and the bullet inside the chamber of their gun was a high explosive projectile, the German tank fired first and missed the American tank because its shot was high , the super Pershing returned fire using its high explosive. bullet which naturally ricocheted off the front of the German tank's armor, at this point the German tank begins to move forward and begins to climb over some rubble exposing its belly to the American tank, which by any stretch of the imagination appears to have done something incredibly stupid.

The super Pershing now launches an armor-piercing round into the belly of the German tank, causing an ammunition fire that blows up the turret, making it clear how a Panzer 4 or even a Tiger was inflated into a Tiger King. It's interesting perhaps because the super Pershing shooting down a Panzer 4 isn't very sexy, but having the Allied and German super tanks facing each other in a kind of

duel

to the death is much more attractive to documentary filmmakers. Unfortunately, this story has become an armored fairy tale in the decades since the end of World War II, the only Super Pershing to see combat in Europe in World War II ended up in an abandoned vehicle in Kassel, Germany, where it was finally scrapped.

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