Publicly ridiculed for the lack of a suitable American tank that could stand up to German armor, the United States Army's Ordinance Department initiated the "Zebra" Mission, which would analyze American tank performance in the European Theatre of Operations and field combat test the T26E3 Pershing, which was armed with a 90mm (3.54 inch) gun. The tank appears to have a bullet or shell hole in the left track guard. This view is a still from a combat camera film. T26A3 (later M26) Pershing of E Company, 32nd Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored Division, attached to 1st Army, 12th Army Group, commanded by Sergeant Robert Early, approaches Koln Domplatz (Cologne Cathedral Square) on Gladbacherstrasse (where Gladbacherstrasse becomes Christophstrasse, as it crosses Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring).
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