Quite a few new items of Vorsprung Durch Technik which means, ?Advancement By way of Technology? which tends to make the Audi S4 deal with like no Audi saloon has ahead of. The second optional additional which impressed was Audi Drive Pick, which allows the settings for the active steering, seven-speed S Tronic gearbox (if fitted), active sport differential and adjustable suspension to be tweaked by way of buttons on the dashboard.
The new technology has been introduced to S4 which pulls energy. Audi claims the new 3-litre supercharged engine is a whopping 37 per cent far more economical than its predecessor. The engine choices offered are 2-litre direct injection turbocharged producing 200bhp and 3.2 litre V6 generating 255bhp. Extra to these, the regular ones are 1.six litre creating 102 bhp, 2 litre making 130bhp and 1.8 litre turbo-charged making 163 bhp.
By way of the years, there are Ford Components that came out that not only increase the performance of the car but at the very same time maintain it ?green?. Ford Motors applied different automobile technologies to further hold its automobiles ?sensitive? enough to care for the environment. The catalytic converter, for instance, is applied by the American automaker in its automobiles, sport utility autos, and trucks to maintain the noxious emissions on protected levels. With this auto aspect intact in the system, method exhaust fumes made by throughout the internal engine combustion is treated prior to released into the air. In this way, dangerous gases are lessened simply because of the catalytic converter.
Ford Motor Company, which debuted in the industry much more than a century ago, is a single of the top automobile firms worldwide. This American automaker takes pride in its competent sales across the globe that tends to make this brand a household name particularly in the United States. Aside from making sure that its models can perform nicely, the business is also keen in enhancing its Ford Components to develop into efficient but environment-friendly.
A further component installed in the corporation?s autos is the oxygen sensor. This diminutive part is strategically placed along the exhaust manifold and near the catalytic converter as it examines exhaust fumes for the availability of air. When it detects a low oxygen presence in the engine?s mixture, it relays the information and facts instantly to the engine control unit. From there, needed adjustments are completed for the engine to have a great mixture of cool air and fuel. As soon as the vehicle?s energy plant is effective adequate, it will no longer emit also considerably exhaust fumes that are harmful to the atmosphere. These are just some of the many Ford Parts that make the autos of the firm gentler to the environment.
The Audi S4 is a breathtaking car or truck to be in and covers ground at an astounding rate but its is nonetheless not an ideal driver?s favourite. Other than the engine revision Audi has not created any substantial modifications to the older version. However, the engine?s instant punch and smoothness is rather impressive. Can this S4 match the M3. Surely not, BMW nonetheless overpowers thanks to its superior steering wheel and wonderful chassis balance. The S4?s superior torque thrashes the M3 on in-gear times. Audi has hinted BMW with S4 that it is capable of giving an equivalent sportier car in this horsepower battle.
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Building Relationships: Learning at the Lower School
Posted on March 28, 2022 by Indian Mountain School
"Yippeeeee!" The gleeful cheers have an intensity that can only come from young children. In this case, it's a group of first graders in science class, thrilled that their classmate successfully launched a balloon rocket across the room. That joy is at the core of learning at the IMS Lower School.
Sitting in the same classroom later that day, Amy Vorenberg, Head of the Lower School, sums it up: "What are we about? We're about building relationships. Relationships that connect students with their peers, with their teachers, with the campus, and with the community. For teachers, those relationships are also built between the classrooms and subjects we teach, in order to support, challenge and inspire our students in an integrated and foundational way from Pre-Kindergarten on up through fourth grade."
"Everything we teach is interrelated."
Amy Vorenberg, Head of Lower School
Amy Vorenberg came to the IMS Lower Campus in 2020, at the height of the pandemic when connections were challenged by masks, being six feet apart, and countless zoom meetings. But the opposite happened within the school's curriculum. "For example," Ms. Vorenberg says, "the things we work on in science are a blend of language arts and literacy skills, math skills, observational skills, artistic skills. We have stopped seeing our offerings as disconnected subjects and, instead, we understand that everything we teach is interrelated."
One building block that connects every classroom is the literacy curriculum. In 2021, the school implemented a program that is rooted in a workshop model, along with a system of reading progression that allows students to build skills at their level. The goal is to empower the students to see themselves as literacy learners, and by building skills at their level, children feel buoyed and they improve. As Ms. Vorenberg says, "to see the enthusiasm, pride and joy of learning is truly magical."
An added resource in the literacy program is a partnership with the Ascend Teachers, who work with students with diagnosed language learning differences, to create a uniform set of materials for teaching key words and sounds. "The result," Ms. Vorenberg says, "is that we are all literacy teachers at IMS – the music instructor teaching lyrics, the science teacher working with science journaling, the math teacher using word problems — and we can really lean into that work with the benefit of having similar resources in every classroom."
The same philosophy supports the math program on the Lower Campus. We know that math isn't just about computation; it is about patterns, spatial reasoning, logic, puzzle-solving, quantities and relationships. Children who are used to memorizing formulas often give up on math when those formulas get more complicated. To help nurture mathematical curiosity and mathematical literacy, Lower Campus students are being taught foundational skills of being mathematical thinkers, including numeracy and subitizing — understanding the why, not just knowing the how.
Teaching for relevance and purpose is a priority at IMS and for our youngest students it's a journey that begins on the Lower Campus. "When you have an integrated curriculum," Ms. Vorenberg explains, "you're connecting the dots between literacy and math and art and science and social studies and in turn, the real world. You're empowering children to see those relationships and make meaning out of them." She adds, "The result is thrilling! Seeing that energy of being a learner, seeing the light bulbs go off when the connections are made. That's what I love."
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Icecream Slideshow Maker deals with JPG, JPEG, PNG and BMP images and helps you create stunning slideshows with zero experience. You don't need to spend hours to figure out how the software works–a few clicks will help you create a slideshow presentation with audio which is close to perfect.The program allows you to set the desired resolution for images and adapt them for a slideshow even if all of them were uploaded in different formats, sizes and quality. Besides, you can keep an original aspect ratio of the images to prevent their stretching or distortion. Otherwise, choose the"Scale to fit"option to adapt the file for the size of your screen.It's possible to set transition effects between the images to make the slideshow fancier. There are 26 effects available (for example Pixelate, Mosaic Spiral, Wipe, Zoom, and many more. If you don't care about the type of the effect, choose the"Random"option and the program will set a random effect; if you don't want to use any effects whatsoever, choose the"None"option and files will be displayed without transition effects. You can use different effects for each slide or set the same effect for all the files.Unlike the majority of free tools, Icecream Slideshow Maker is beautifully designed and appears to be an eye candy. Coupled with intuitive interface, its design makes the program a pleasure to use.


Guilty Pleasures: two worlds in collision. A 1930s drawing room drama, in which convention and good manners prevail – and a dingy bathroom where sexual encounters, dark secrets and strange fantasies are played out. A switchback ride between well placed words and extreme acts, Guilty Pleasures pulls no punches and risks the explicit. This compelling fusion of video technology and live action will take you on a noirish trip through the spiteful words and filthy pictures of one of the UK's most exciting and versatile young companies. Combining highly physical performance and intellectual guile, imitating the dog tread a fine line between fiction and reality, reflecting a world where nothing is as it seems.
Guilty Pleasures was produced in conjunction with the Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster as part of the Live Wire project, and was also funded by Arts Council England (Yorkshire Arts). It toured England from October 2000 to April 2001.


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The Greatest Lake
Stories from Lake Superior's North Shore
Conor Mihell
Explore the connection between people and places on the rugged shore of Lake Superior, the world's largest freshwater lake.
Conor Mihell offers a compelling image of Lake Superior's Canadian shore through colourful personality sketches, adventure stories, and environmental accounts. Admire the kitschy decor of lighthouse cottager Maureen Robertson, a 76-year-old who spends six months of the year alone on a remote island; enter the debate over a controversial aggregate quarry in Wawa, Ontario; and learn how the author's love affair with the world's largest freshwater lake began on quests for a near-mystical, glacier-dropped monolith.
Mihell's stories build on Lake Superior's rich and varied history and support its critical place in Canadian culture. Since the beginning, Lake Superior has been revered for its God-like qualities of power, unpredictability, and a seemingly endless expanse of life-sustaining freshwater. The lake's rugged yet fragile nature and hardscrabble characters and outpost communities define rural northwestern Canada. Experience it for yourself in this first collection of stories by one of the region's most acclaimed journalists.
Through 16 separate stories, he paints a distinctly Canadian picture of Lake Superior's north shore, telling tales of the land and the people who inhabit it.
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Conor Mihell is an adventure travel, lifestyle, and environmental journalist. He writes for magazines and newspapers such as Cottage Life, the Globe & Mail, Canoe & Kayak, and ON Nature, and won a 2010 Northern Lights Award (1st Place, independent journalist-magazine) for travel-writing excellence. He lives in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
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require 'spec_helper'
require 'zombie_scout/formatter'

describe ZombieScout::Formatter do
  let(:mission) {
    double(:mission, defined_method_count: 123,
                     source_count: 97,
                     zombie_count: 42,
                     duration: 55)
  }

  let(:report) {
    [
      { flog_score: 23.4,
        location: 'foo.rb:42',
        full_name: 'Foo#bar' },
      { flog_score: 43.2,
        location: 'bar.rb:99',
        full_name: 'Bar#none' }
    ]
  }

  context 'for "report" format' do
    it 'formats it correctly' do
      output = ZombieScout::Formatter.format('report', mission, report)

      expect(output).to include "Scouted 123 methods in 97 files"
      expect(output).to include "in 55 seconds"
      expect(output).to include "Found 42 potential zombies"
      expect(output).to include "combined flog score of 66.6"
      expect(output).to include "foo.rb:42\tFoo#bar\t23.4"
      expect(output).to include "bar.rb:99\tBar#none\t43.2"
    end
  end

  context 'for "csv" format' do
    it 'formats it correctly' do
      output = ZombieScout::Formatter.format('csv', mission, report)

      lines = output.split("\n").map(&:chomp)
      expect(lines).to eq([
        'location,name,flog_score',
        'foo.rb:42,Foo#bar,23.4',
        'bar.rb:99,Bar#none,43.2'
      ])
    end
  end
end

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John Pettigrew, group CEO of the UK's grid operator, National Grid has insisted that the state has one of the world's most reliable energy networks and that he was not on holiday during the blackout on Friday 9 August that left 900,000 people without electricity.
He said the grid operator has been doing "everything in our power" to understand the events surrounding the blackout, which affected large areas of England and Wales.
UK Energy minister Andrea Leadsom has demanded answers and is also commissioning the government's Energy Emergencies Executive Committee to investigate.
Read: Ed's note: In the dark
Mr Pettigrew said the grid management system "did the job that it was designed to do," and power was restored within 15 minutes, with distribution network operators being able to restore power to their own networks within 45 minutes.
He admitted that the timing of the power cut "when people are trying to get home to their families and friends after a hard week at work is one of the worst".
In the past six years alone, National Grid has invested £10bn in improving the security, integrity and carbon performance of UK energy supply markets.
He added: "Since that partial power cut, thousands of colleagues across the industry have been working hard to ensure the system is robust and to understand exactly what happened, and what we should do differently in the future.
"The whole UK energy industry needs to understand the causes of this power cut and also why it was able to create such significant disruption to services across Great Britain, particularly the transport network.
"Nevertheless we shouldn't be too hasty to declare a complete failure of our current system. Whilst this event was due to a rare and exceptional combination of circumstances, we were able to restore power within 15 minutes."
– UK: Almost one million without power in 9-hour blackout – Ofgem demands answers
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"The UK is not Argentina"
Mr Pettigrew noted that "Contrary to the comparisons in some parts, the UK is not Argentina and even after Friday's events, we have statistically one of the most reliable energy networks not only in Europe but anywhere in the world.
"This is the result of the energy industry investing £100bn in distribution and transmission networks since 1990. In the past six years alone, National Grid has invested £10bn in improving the security, integrity and carbon performance of UK energy supply markets. Power cuts are actually 60% less frequent than they were when I started working at National Grid back in 1991.
"We are certain this was a result of a freak coincidence and not a cyber-attack. While we must not be complacent and must continue to be vigilant, our investments in cybersecurity defences provide a silent shield to UK power supplies."
He said National Grid is already "well into our own international investigations" and will be issuing an urgent report to the country's regulator, Ofgem, and government by Friday 16 August, with a full technical report due by 06 September.
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Physics by the Lake
UK Graduate School in Condensed Matter Theory
Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems (SCQ)
Chris Hooley
This course deals mainly with the influence of interactions on the electrons in materials. We begin with a review of second quantisation and the Fermi gas theory of metals, and then progress to Landau's Fermi liquid theory and the notion of quasiparticles. The effect of impurities on the Fermi liquid (including the Kondo effect) is discussed, and we then move on to consider how the Fermi liquid gives way to other phases as the interactions are increased, concentrating on the Stoner instability and the Mott insulator. We analyse the magnetism in the Mott insulating phase, developing the concept of spin waves. Finally, we make a survey of some experimental data on strongly correlated crystalline solids, giving basic interpretations in terms of the concepts developed in the course.
Chris Hooley is a theoretical condensed matter physicist at the University of St Andrews, and is interested in many aspects of the quantum many-body problem.
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Will Smith, Suicide Squad, 2016. After seeing 14 possible Harley Quinns, director David Ayer shuffled through 19 Deadshots. None hit the target. Not Elba, Daniel Craig, Matt Damon, Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Colin Farrell, Michael Fassbender, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Jon Hamm. Nor Oscar Isaac, Joel Kinnaman (he became Rick Flag), Matthew McConaughey, Ewan McGregor, Robert Pattinson, Brad Pitt, Keanu Reeves, Alexander Skarsgård and Jason Statham. Another Warner/DC flop because Warner wasn't Marvel and Smith was way too top-heavy for a team effort.


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New Salt documents the journey and spirit of Soomin, a street artist turned sailor, who abandons her life in Seoul to buy a modest sailboat and set out to sail towards the Southern tip of Korea, learning as she journeys.
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Riverside Lodge receives award for quality
Riverside Lodge Retirement Community in Grand Island received the Best Programming Award for National Assisted Living Week in 2008, 2011 and 2014 from the Nebraska Health Care Association/Nebraska Assisted Living Association.
The award, presented by the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), highlights facilities across the nation that have demonstrated their intention to pursue a rigorous quality improvement system.
"This award signifies a great commitment to quality care and an important step in raising the standards of sustainable, person-centered care and services," said Mark Parkinson, president and CEO of AHCA/NCAL. "We congratulate Riverside Lodge on this achievement."
Implemented by AHCA/NCAL in 1996, the National Quality Award Program is centered on the core values and criteria of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program. The program assists providers of long term and post-acute care services in achieving their performance excellence goals.
"This award is a tribute to our entire sta ff and their personal dedication to the care and services provided for each and every resident," said Deb Friend, Riverside Lodge executive director. "I could not be more proud of them."
Friend and Jan Thayer, CEO and owner, accepted the award on behalf of the staff and residents of Riverside Lodge Retirement Community during AHCA/NCAL's 62nd annual Convention and Exposition Sept. 18 through 21 in Las Vegas.
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Q: Choosing the right technology/library for adding user specified text on a path in previously defined regions I am building an admin area using CodeIgniter 2, where the admin has the ability to add specific images that are "blank", when it comes to text overlay. When they upload the image, they should have a way of defining certain paths on which regular users can add desired text. Basically, this can be used for shirts, mugs...any type of custom printable surfaces.
The paths need to support straight lines, bezier curves and circles. And one base image needs to support multiple paths.
I used the Raphael JS library and SVG.
Here is my current approach:

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*I open up the base image in InkScape and draw a path

*Export the path as SVG

*Use that path for creating a Raphael JS path

*Place the text on that path

The problem with this approach is that some letters display rather strange when placed on a curved/circular path and I can't quite place it exactly where it needs to be, so there is some offset letters that I just can't have.
Here is a sample site of where this kind of stuff has been implemented using .net. Basically, you enter the text in Line 1, Line 2 etc. and it displays on the badge on the right hand side. It also retains the text in the defined region, so if you enter more text than can fit in the region, it squeezes the text so it could fit.
Does anyone have any pointers for me as to what I should be looking for? Main points being: the paths/regions need to be defined by the admin (using JS or a third party application) and the text must be placed on those paths.
This does not have to be done using HTML5, it can be done using any kind of PHP library as well.

A: Right, if your paths can be defined by an admin, rather than by the user, then draw them in Inkscape and get Inkscape to do your rendering on the server. This is easy to achieve on the command line, though of course you'll need admin access to your server to install Inkscape. Then, where a path needs to support text, give it a special id that you can recognise in your application, then rewrite the SVG file using one of PHP's XML writers, and convert using Inkscape to PNG output.
If you get text input from users then you'll need to do a certain amount of cleaning (swapping angle-brackets to their htmlentities etc) but otherwise it's quite easy. Files take around 0.7 sec to process on my dev machine, and if you expect much in the way of load, you can do it on a queue.
Edit: it's not as quick as Raphael, but it's much more reliable in terms of browser support. I've not looked into Raphael much, but I'm pretty sure the text flow stuff I'm doing just doesn't have good support client-side (yet, anyway).
Edit 2: this is what my current work looks like. The item on the left is an SVG template, rendered in-browser as a low-res PNG image, and the input boxes on the right are editing boxes (the last one containing symbols is using a home-made markup syntax, in case you're wondering). Now, the red outlines are bounding boxes that are retrieved using the Inkscape CLI. So, since we can detect an outline, in your case, you could determine by what percentage some text has overrun, and reduce the font-size inside a tspan element accordingly. (When you say "transform", I presume you mean "reduce in size").
That would be in effect a poor man's auto-fit feature. It would be nice if there was direct support in SVG for that, but I am not aware that there is. But, it does sound like the above suggestion would work for your case.

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We rotary engrave these using a diamond cutter and complex fill patterns to cut into the metal. This makes for logos that pop and text with depth that sparkles and catches the light. We do not laser engrave metal as it makes a flat, lifeless award.and black brass engraves gold. Can be engraved vertical or horizontal.


Rinnai RUC98iN offers an attractive looking and very innovative as well as technologically sound water heating solution for indoor usage. It is a space-saving, sleek, compact and energy efficient unit that offers flexible venting options, that is, both concentric and twin pipe installations. This unit weighs 80pounds, contains MC-91-2US digital controller and operates on natural gas. Efficiency wise this heater is superior to other gas powered models with 9.8GPM flow rate. For indoor use both in commercial and residential areas, this unit is ideal because it supplies endless hot water supply. It is equipped with all the necessary trappings of tankless water heaters.
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Like other gas powered tankless heaters, this unit is also not free from problems. The cold sandwich effect is a problem that might occur since the heater is unable to maintain constant hot water backup and thus, you have to wait for about two minutes to get hot water pouring in consistently. Moreover, the high price of this heater makes it an expensive option for a majority of families. Nonetheless, if you can afford it then it is an ideal solution to meet all sorts of your hot water demands without compromising on size, weight, design and innovation. The unit is also environmentally friendly and is a good choice for large families.
All in all, the Rinnai Tankless Water Heater is a fantastic way to meet all of your hot water needs without having to resort to bulky, costly and environmentally unfriendly tank water heaters, and will ensure that the days of rationing hot water based on whatever needs it most are a thing of the past. Hot water when you want it, where you want it and however much of it you want, and all for only $200 more than the standard tank heater which will pay for itself with all of the money you will save in the long run.
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Do you want to give your Publix feedback and reviews of your last visit? If yes you can follow the steps and complete the Publix survey to improve the quality and services. the survey is under the control of the company. the management of the company conducts the survey. This is because the customers may hesitate to share their opinions with the organizations directly. So, they can view their opinions by participating in the Publix customer satisfaction survey.
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When you finish the Publix survey, you will receive a validation code that you can use to redeem the special offer printed on your receipt.
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M26 Pershing. Public Domain
by Kennedy Hickman
Kennedy Hickman is a historian, museum director, and curator who specializes in military and naval history. He has appeared on The History Channel as a featured expert.
The M26 Pershing was a heavy tank developed for the U.S. Army during World War II. Conceived as a replacement for the iconic M4 Sherman, the M26 suffered from an extended design and development process as well as political infighting among the U.S. Army's leadership. The M26 arrived in the final months of the conflict and proved effective against the latest German tanks. Retained after the war, it was upgraded and evolved. Deployed during the Korean War, the M26 proved superior to the tanks used by Communist forces but struggled at times with the difficult terrain and suffered from various issues with its systems. The M26 was later replaced by the Patton series of tank in the U.S. Army.
Development of the M26 began in 1942 as production was beginning on the M4 Sherman medium tank. Initially intended to be a follow-on for the M4, the project was designated T20 and was to serve as a test bed for experimenting with new types of guns, suspensions, and transmissions. T20 series prototypes employed a new torqmatic transmission, the Ford GAN V-8 engine, and the new 76 mm M1A1 gun. As testing moved forward, problems emerged with the new transmission system and a parallel program was established, designated T22, which utilized the same mechanical transmission as the M4.
A third program, the T23, was also created to test a new electric transmission which had been developed by General Electric. This system quickly proved to have performance advantages in rough terrain as it could adjust to rapid changes in torque requirements. Pleased with the new transmission, the Ordnance Department pushed the design forward. Possessing a cast turret mounting the 76 mm gun, the T23 was produced in limited numbers during 1943, but did not see combat. Instead, its legacy proved to be its turret which was later utilized in 76 mm gun-equipped Shermans.
Panther Tank. Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-300-1876-02A
A New Heavy Tank
With the emergence of the new German Panther and Tiger tanks, efforts began within the Ordnance Department to develop a heavier tank to compete with them. This resulted in the T25 and T26 series which built upon the earlier T23. Devised in 1943, the T26 saw the addition of a 90 mm gun and substantially heavier armor. Though these greatly increased the tank's weight, the engine was not upgraded and the vehicle proved underpowered. Despite this, the Ordnance Department was pleased with the new tank and worked to move it towards production.
The first production model, T26E3, possessed a cast turret mounting a 90 mm gun and required a crew of four. Powered by the Ford GAF V-8, it utilized a torsion bar suspension and torqmatic transmission. Construction of the hull consisted of a combination of castings and rolled plate. Entering service, the tank was designated M26 Pershing heavy tank. The name was selected to honor General John J. Pershing who had founded the U.S. Army's Tank Corps during World War I.
Length: 28 ft. 4.5 in.
Width: 11 ft. 6 in.
Height: 9 ft. 1.5 in.
Weight: 41.7 tons
Armor & Armament
Primary Gun: M3 90 mm
Secondary Armament: 2 × Browning .30-06 cal. machine guns, 1 × Browning .50 cal. machine gun
Armor: 1-4.33 in.
Engine: Ford GAF, 8-cylinder, 450–500 hp
Speed: 25 mph
Range: 100 miles
Suspension: Torsion Bar
Production Delays
As design of the M26 came to completion, its production was delayed by an ongoing debate in the U.S. Army regarding the need for a heavy tank. While Lieutenant General Jacob Devers, the head of U.S. Army forces in Europe advocated for the new tank, he was opposed by Lieutenant General Lesley McNair, commander Army Ground Forces. This was further complicated by Armored Command's desire to press on the M4 and concerns that a heavy tank would not be able to use the Army Corps of Engineers' bridges.
With the backing of General George Marshall, the project remained alive and production moved forward in November 1944. While some claim that Lieutenant General George S. Patton played a key role in delaying the M26, these assertions are not well supported.
Ten M26s were built in November 1943, with production escalating at the Fisher Tank Arsenal. Production also commenced at the Detroit Tank Arsenal in March 1945. By the end of 1945, over 2,000 M26s had been built. In January 1945, experiments began on the "Super Pershing" which mounted the improved T15E1 90mm gun. This variant was only produced in small numbers. Another variant was the M45 close support vehicle which mounted a 105 mm howitzer.
An M26 Pershing of A Company, 14th Tank Battalion, is transported aboard a pontoon ferry across the Rhine on March 12, 1945. National Archives and Records Administration
Following American losses to German tanks in the Battle of the Bulge the need for the M26 became clear. The first shipment of twenty Pershings arrived in Antwerp in January 1945. These were split between the 3rd and 9th Armored Divisions and were the first of 310 M26s to reach Europe before the end of the war. Of these, around 20 saw combat.
The M26's first action occurred with the 3rd Armored on February 25 near the Roer River. Four M26s were also involved in the 9th Armored's capture of the Bridge at Remagen on March 7-8. In encounters with Tigers and Panthers, the M26 performed well. In the Pacific, a shipment of twelve M26s departed on May 31 for use in the Battle of Okinawa. Due to a variety of delays, they did not arrive until after the fighting had ended.
Retained after the war, the M26 was re-designated as a medium tank. Assessing the M26, it was decided to rectify the issues of its under-powered engine and problematic transmission. Beginning in January 1948, 800 M26s received new Continental AV1790-3 engines and Allison CD-850-1 cross-drive transmissions. Along with a new gun and host of other modifications, these altered M26s were redesignated as the M46 Patton.
USMC M26 Pershing tank advancing in Korea, September 4, 1950. National Archives and Records Administration
With the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, the first medium tanks to reach Korea were a provisional platoon of M26s dispatched from Japan. Additional M26s reached the peninsula later that year where they fought alongside M4s and M46s. Though performing well in combat, the M26 was withdrawn from Korea in 1951 due to reliability issues associated with its systems. The type was retained by U.S. forces in Europe until the arrival of new M47 Pattons in 1952-1953. As the Pershing was phased out of American service, it was provided to NATO allies such as Belgium, France, and Italy. The Italians used the type until 1963.
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