Super Pershing tank

[Dave Block]

The 'Super' Pershing, or 'Super M-26' was a one-off tank sent to Europe in March, 1945. It was 'super' because it mounted the new, long-barrelled T15E1 90mm gun. 40mm & 80mm plate was added for protection under the direction of Belton Cooper himself. In short, only one made. More detailed information can be found in 'Military Modelling' vol.35 no.4 (Apr.-May 2005) in Steve Zaloga's excellent article on modelling this beast. Of course, Hunnicutt's 'Pershing' book has the full story as well. I can also highly recommend Cooper's 'Death Traps'.
The photo scan is originally from the Patton Museum and I took it from Steve's MM article as I didn't want to break the spine of the Hunnicut book on my scanner.

HTH, Cheers, Dave