Tank Killers

31. John Hudson, letter to author, 8 February 2003.

32. An Informal History of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 34-35.

33. Account of Col J.Barney Jr., undated, records of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

34. Liddell Hart, 465.

35. Griess, 234-235. Whitlock, 99-100. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 183.

36. Quoted in Whitlock, 98.

37. Liddell Hart, 469.

38. Combat Lessons Learned Number 2, 53.

39. Military Attache Report 284, “Tank Destroyer Operations,” 13 October 1944, 1-4.284/44 (7316 1/2), records of the Adjutant General’s Office, National Archives.

40. Generalmajor Martin Schmidt, “Panzer Units, Employment in Central Italy, 1944.” MS # D-204. Historical Division, Headquarters United States Army, Europe, 1947. National Archives. (Hereinafter Schmidt.)

41. Josowitz, 19.

42. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 159.

43. “Organization and Employment of a Tank Destroyer Battalion,” HQS 701st Tank Destroyer Battalion, 11 October 1943.

44. An Informal History of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 37. Telephone interview with Randolph Mojsl, April 2002. AARs, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

45. Account of Col J.Barney Jr., undated, records of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

46. An Informal History of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 35-36.

47. Josowitz, 19. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion.

48. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 185.

49. Griess, 236. Liddell Hart, 469.

50. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 194 ff.

51. Josowitz, 20. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 199.

52. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 201.

53. Liddell Hart, 469.

54. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 181. Griess, 236.

55. Griess, 236-237.

56. AAR, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

57. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion.

58. Calvin C. Boykin, Jr., General A.D. Bruce: Father of Fort Hood (College Station, Texas: C&R Publications, 2002), 33. (Hereinafter Boykin, General A.D. Bruce.)

59. Combat Lessons Learned Number 1. (U.S. War Department, 1944), 55.

60. Schmidt.

61. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion.

62. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion.

63. AAR, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

64. Griess, 238.

65. Combat Lessons, 701st Tank Destroyer Battalion, 1 June 1944.

66. AAR, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

67. An Informal History of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 37. Account of Col J.Barney Jr., undated, records of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

68. Account of Col J.Barney Jr., undated, records of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

69. John Hudson, letter to author, 8 February 2003.

70. Sherman, 30.

71. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion.

72. Dunnagan, 161.

73. AAR, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

74. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 249.

75. The American Arsenal, 140.

76. History, 805th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

77. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 252-253.

78. John Hudson, letter to author, 8 February 2003.

79. Gill, 47-48.

80. AAR, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion. John Hudson, letter to author, 8 February 2003.

81. AAR, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

82. History, 805th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

83. George Smith, Jack Hallowell, Joe F. Meis, Robert LeMense, Al Morgan, and Irving Kintisch, History of the 157th Infantry Regiment (Rifle), 4 June ‘43-8 May ’45 (Baton Rouge, LA: Army & Navy Publishing Company, 1946), 48. (Hereinafter Smith, et al.)

84. Sherman, 35.

85. John Hudson, letter to author, 8 February 2003.

86. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 269.

87. An Informal History of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 41.

88. Griess, 238.

89. Liddell Hart, 473.

Chapter 5: Anzio and Two Roads to Rome

1. Martin Blumenson, Anzio: The Gamble That Failed (New York, NY: Cooper Square Press, 2001), 73-74. (Hereinafter Blumenson, Anzio: The Gamble That Failed.)

2. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 359.

3. Telephone interview with John Hudson, May 2002.

4. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion. Josowitz, 22.

5. History, 894th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Telephone interview with Rudolph Mojsl, April 2002.

6. The American Arsenal, 66.

7. Blumenson, Anzio: The Gamble That Failed, 75-76.

8. Ibid., 33-40.

9. Ibid., 43 ff.

10. Ibid., 56.

11. Ibid., 61-63.

12. Griess, 239.

13. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion.

14. Smith, et al, 52.

15. Battalion history, 894th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

16. Blumenson, Anzio: The Gamble That Failed, 85-92.

17. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion.

18. Blumenson, Anzio: The Gamble That Failed, 85-97.

19. Lessons from the Italian Campaign, Training Memorandum Number 2, Headquarters, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, 15 March 1944. The Story of the 1st Armored Division, 33.

20. S-3 Journal, 894th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

21. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion. Combat Lessons, 701st Tank Destroyer