Download or read book An Informal History of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion written by United States. Army. 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Informal History of the 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion written by United States. Army. Tank Corps. 601st Destroyer Battalion and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book After Action Report 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion September 1943 February 1945 written by United States. Army. Tank Destroyer Battalion, 776th and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Tank Killers written by Harry Yeide and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2005-01-19 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fantastic read . . . Whether your interest is armour or history I would highly recommend this book” (Military Modelling). The tank destroyer was a bold—though some would say flawed—answer to the challenge posed by the seemingly unstoppable German Blitzkrieg. The TD was conceived to be light and fast enough to outmaneuver panzer forces and go where tanks could not. At the same time, the TD would wield the firepower needed to kill any German tank on the battlefield. Indeed, American doctrine stipulated that TDs would fight tanks, while American tanks would concentrate on achieving and exploiting breakthroughs of enemy lines. The Tank Killers follows the men who fought in the TDs, from the formation of the force in 1941 through the victory over the Third Reich in 1945. It is a story of American flexibility and pragmatism in military affairs. Tank destroyers were among the very first units to land in North Africa in 1942. Their first vehicles were ad hoc affairs: halftracks and weapons carriers with guns no better than those on tanks, thin armor affording the crews considerably less protection. Almost immediately, the crews began adapting to circumstances, along with their partners in the infantry and armored divisions. By the time North Africa was in Allied hands, the TD had become a valued tank fighter, assault gun, and artillery piece. The reconnaissance teams in TD battalions, meanwhile, had established a record for daring operations that would continue for the rest of the war. The story continues with the invasion of Italy and, finally, that of Fortress Europe on June 6, 1944. By now, the brass had decreed that half the force would convert to towed guns, a decision that dogged the affected crews through the end of the war. The TD men encountered increasingly lethal enemies, ever more dangerous panzers that were often vulnerable only to their guns, while American tank crews watched in frustration as their rounds bounced harmlessly off the thick German armor. They fought under incredibly diverse conditions that demanded constant modification of tactics, and their equipment became ever more deadly. By VE-Day, the tank destroyer battalions had achieved impressive records, generally with kill-loss rates heavily in their favor. Yet the army after the war concluded that the concept of a separate TD arm was so fundamentally flawed that not a single battalion existed after November 1946. The Tank Killers draws heavily on the records of the tank destroyer battalions and the units with which they fought, as well as personal stories from veterans of the force.

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Download or read book History of 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion written by United States. Army. Tank Destroyer Battalion, 630th and published by . This book was released on 1945* with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Battalion History 773rd Tank Destroyer Battalion written by United States. Army. 773d Tank Destroyer Battalion and published by . This book was released on 1945* with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book United States Army Unit Histories written by US Army Military History Institute and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Histories of American Army Units written by Charles Emil Dornbusch and published by Washington : Department of the Army, Office of the Adjutant General, Special Services Division, Library and Service Club Branch. This book was released on 1956 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the 811th Tank Destroyer Battalion written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book United States Army Unit Histories written by US Army Military History Research Collection and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a bibliography of U.S. Army unit histories.

Download or read book United States Army unit histories written by George Sotiros Pappas and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Unit Histories of World War II and After written by United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History Of The 605th Tank Destroyer Battalion 1941 1945 Unit History written by and published by History Delivered. This book was released on 2023-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reprint of the World War Two Original. It contains over 30 pages of full color pages of information and photos on the 605th Tank Destroyer Battalion. This is an exacting replica, made to look old and nearly identical to the original book.

Download or read book Eight Hundred and Fourth Tank Destroyer Battalion 1941 1945 written by Wallace L. Clement and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of 661st Tank Destroyer Battalion written by United States. Army. 661st Tank Destroyer Battalion and published by . This book was released on 1945* with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: