Download or read book Daredevil Tankers written by George Kenneth Rubel and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weapons of the Tankers written by Harry Yeide and published by . This book was released on with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the different types of tanks used by armored battalions in the United States Army during World War II.
Download or read book The Infantry s Armor written by Harry Yeide and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tanks, amphibian tanks, and amphibian tractors in action in all theaters, from Africa and Europe to the Pacific How the battalions fought the war, often in the tankers' own words Crystal-clear maps The U.S. Army's separate armored battalions fought in obscurity by comparison with the flashy armored divisions, but they carried the heavier burden in the grim struggle against the Axis in World War II. The battalions participated in every armored amphibious assault that the army conducted. They did most of the bloody work in Italy, made vital contributions in France, and constituted the entire effort in the Pacific.
Download or read book 740th Tank Battalion Historical Book written by Pete Brothern and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Separate tank battalions were military formations used by the United States Army during World War II, especially in the European Theater of Operations. These battalions were temporarily attached to infantry, armored, or airborne divisions according to need, though at least one battalion (740th Tank Battalion) spent the entire war in Europe attached to one division. They were also known as general headquarters ("GHQ") tank battalions. December 1944. When the Daredevil Tankers of the 740th Tank Battalion moved into the breach against Kampfgruppe Peiper in the ice and snow of the Belgian Ardennes, the ferociousness of their attack sent the elite panzers of Hitler's 1st SS Panzer Division reeling. In bastard tanks pieced together from the scrapheap only the night before, the 740th plunged awkwardly into the war, spearheading lead elements of the 30th "Old Hickory" Division. It was the first good news to come out of the Battle of the Bulge. The 740th tankers rumbled on to crack the famed Siegfried Line twice, in some of the most bitter fightings of the war.
Download or read book Battle of the Bulge written by Ray Merriam and published by Merriam Press. This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Into the Breach written by Paul L. Pearson and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: December 1944. When the Daredevil Tankers of the 740th Tank Battalion moved into the breach against Kampfgruppe Peiper in the ice and snow of the Belgian Ardennes, the ferociousness of their attack sent the elite panzers of Hitler's 1st SS Panzer Division reeling. In bastard tanks pieced together from the scrapheap only the night before, the 740th plunged awkwardly into the war, spearheading lead elements of the 30th "Old Hickory" Division. It was the first good news to come out of the Battle of the Bulge. The 740th tankers rumbled on to crack the famed Siegfried Line twice, in some of the most bitter fighting of the war.
Download or read book The Devil s Adjutant written by Michael Reynolds and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2009-10-19 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of Nazi field commander Jochen Peiper’s military career, war crimes trial, and 1976 murder. Jochen Peiper would likely never have been heard of outside Germany if not for the infamous massacre of US Army POWs near Malmedy, Belgium, during World War II, with which his name has been forever associated. Shunned and despised in the years following Germany’s surrender, Peiper is nevertheless praised by many for his military acumen. This meticulously researched book explores Peiper’s youth, his career with the SS, the now famous trial of the officers and soldiers of the Leibstandarte, who were accused of war crimes, and Peiper’s murder in France over thirty years later. “One of WWII’s most interesting combat leaders . . . a fascinating story.” —Armor Includes maps and illustrations
Download or read book Armor written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magazine of mobile warfare.
Download or read book Buddy s War written by Floyd Killough and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Buddy Poteet and fifteen men from Collingsworth County, Texas who all trained together at Fort Knox, Kentucky during WWII. The men were sworn to secrecy and moved to the Desert Training Center in Arizona for intense, classified training. The Collingsworth County men arrived in Buddy's ancestral homeland in the Ardennes Forest in Wallonia, Belgium in November, 1944, with the 740th Tank Battalion. When the Battle of the Bulge commenced in December, Buddy and the 740th quickly drove the elite Kampfgruppe Peiper back into Germany. Attached to the 82nd Airborne Division in January, 1945, the 740th attacked to the north of the Bulge. They assaulted the Siegfried Line in February, crossed the Roer with the 8th Infantry Division in March and joined in the drive on Cologne. After reaching the Rhine, the battalion transferred 350 miles south and attached to the 63rd Infantry Division for another attack through the Siegfried Line toward Saarbrucken. They returned to the 8th Infantry Division to hammer at the Ruhr Pocket in April, 1945, crossed the Elbe, and raced to the Baltic Sea.At the end of the war in May, 1945, Buddy and the Collingsworth County Tankers became part of the Occupation Forces in in Witzenhausen, Germany and prevented the kidnapping of Werner Von Braun, as part of operation 'Paperclip'.Buddy's War is the story of brave men who answered the call to help preserve freedom, liberty, and the American way of life.
Download or read book US Tank and Tank Destroyer Battalions in the ETO 1944 45 written by Steven J. Zaloga and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overshadowed by the United States Army's armored divisions, the separate tank and tank destroyer battalions had the difficult mission of providing armored support for US infantry divisions in the 1944–45 campaigns. This book details the organizational structures and deployment of these units: the standard tank battalions, tank battalions (light), tank battalions (mine exploder) and tank battalions (special), self-propelled and towed tank destroyer battalions. It also covers the tactics used by these units in their attempts to assist the infantry, as well as providing a listing of all the battalions that took part in the Northwest Europe campaign.
Download or read book Armored Thunderbolt written by Steve Zaloga and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Hundreds of photos, including many never published before with riveting accounts of armored warfare in World War II • Compares the Sherman to other tanks, including the Panther and Tiger • Author is a world-renowned expert on the Sherman tank and American armor Some tank crews referred to the American M4 Sherman tank as a "death trap." Others, like Gen. George Patton, believed that the Sherman helped win World War II. So which was it: death trap or war winner? Armor expert Steven Zaloga answers that question by recounting the Sherman's combat history. Focusing on Northwest Europe (but also including a chapter on the Pacific), Zaloga follows the Sherman into action on D-Day, among the Normandy hedgerows, during Patton's race across France, in the great tank battle at Arracourt in September 1944, at the Battle of the Bulge, across the Rhine, and in the Ruhr pocket in 1945.
Download or read book Where Heroes Trained written by Roger M. Baty and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Where Heroes Trained deals with a secretive and highly unusual Army project in World War II. Not a Manhattan Project, but taken nearly as seriously, this was a most interesting sidelight of armored warfare. Caught up in the project were many unwitting GIs who found themselves whisked off to mysterious training bases, introduced to the most powerful tank in the American arsenal, and drilled in one of the war's most imaginative battle tactics. This is oral history as it ought to be done: a truly unusual project with lots of photos, maps and illustrations and-best of all-interviews that have been well edited. Baty and Maddox make even the most commonplace memories of home and camp into absorbing reading. The result is a fascinating look at ordinary American GIs caught up in a strange environment, enmeshed in events they barely understand, and determined to carry it through. Best of all, this is no BS " -Ray Puffer, Historian, Edwards AFB
Download or read book Messengers of the Lost Battalion written by Gregory Orfalea and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Before the Flames and the son of a member of the ill-fated infantry battalion discusses America's 551st Battalion and their heroic, little-known role during World War II's Battle of the Bulge.
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 SS Panzer Battalion 501 written by Hugues Wenkin and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Peiper Kampfgruppe was the spearhead of the 6th Panzer Army. Most often mentioned for its actions on Ardennes soil, today the Gepanzerte Kampfgruppe "Peiper" remains an object of interest for its actions during the engagements between Stavelot and La Gleize, as well as the engagement of its Tiger II against the American armored units. Although the unit had exceptional crews, including some of the most emblematic aces of the Panzerwaffe, and benefited from the element of surprise, it suffered a bitter failure in the Ardennes. How could a vehicle considered to be among the most powerful of the conflict suffer almost 100 percent losses? In hindsight, can we speak of a tactical failure? This study, carried out by a duo of Ardennes authors experienced in this episode of the Second World War, meets the dual objective of reconstructing the facts and explaining why, in the end, the Tiger tank battalion N°501 (schwere SS-Panzer Abteilung 501) was able to survive the Battle of the Bulge. It includes a summary of their confrontations, a history of the unit, as well as a tank-by-tank analysis of the causes of destruction. In total, the authors found sixteen different examples, and the machines lost one by one in the Ardennes make it possible to follow the unit's course throughout the conflict.
Download or read book List of Unofficial Unit Histories and Unit Associations written by United States. Adjutant-General's Office. Administrative Services Division and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unit Histories of World War II written by United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
