Tank Killers

Battalion, 19 March 1944 and 1 June 1944.

22. Patrick J. Chase, Seek, Strike, Destroy, The History of the 894th Tank Destroyer Battalion in World War II (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1995), 32-33. (Hereinafter Chase.)

23. Ibid., 33-34.

24. AAR, 894th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

25. Blumenson, Anzio: The Gamble That Failed, 105-117. Gill, 49.

26. AAR, 701st Tank Destroyer Battalion.

27. Smith, et al, 57.

28. Smith, et al, 58ff. Schmidt.

29. Von Senger und Etterlin, 198-199.

30. Smith, et al, 58ff. Gill, 49.

31. Gill, 50.

32. Blumenson, Anzio: The Gamble That Failed, 125.

33. See Wehrtechnik.net, http://www.wehrtechnik.net/wehrtechnik/index. (Hereafter Wehrtechnik.)

34. Von Senger und Etterlin, 53,65,202-203.

35. Chris Bishop and Adam Warner, editors, German Weapons of World War II (Edison, NJ: Chartwell Books, Inc., 2001), 121.

36. Horst Scheibert, Kampf und Untergang der Deutschen Panzertruppe, 1939- 1945 (Dorheim, Germany: Podzun Verlag, not dated), 9.

37. Smith, et al, 58ff. Blumenson, Anzio: The Gamble That Failed, 132.

38. Blumenson, Anzio: The Gamble That Failed, 134-135.

39. Gill, 50.

40. Blumenson, Anzio: The Gamble That Failed, 134-135.

41. Gill, 50-51.

42. AAR, 894th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

43. AAR, 701st Tank Destroyer Battalion. Telephone interview with John Hudson, May 2002. John Hudson, letter to author, 8 February 2003. Gill, 50.

44. Chase, 42.

45. Smith, et al, 69. John Hudson, letter to author, 8 February 2003.

46. General der Panzertruppen a.d. Walter Fries, “29th Panzergrenadier Division (Feb. 1944),” MS # D-141. Historical Division, Headquarters United States Army, Europe, not dated. National Archives. (Hereinafter Fries.)

47. AAR, 701st Tank Destroyer Battalion.

48. Fries.

49. Gill, 51.

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

51. AAR, 894th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

52. Note to author from Bill Harper, 2002.

53. Telephone interview with Rudolph Mojsl, April 2002. Josowitz, 25.

54. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion, for April 1944.

55. Military Attache Report 284.

56. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion, for April 1944. Combat Lessons, 701st Tank Destroyer Battalion, 19 March 1944. AAR, 821st Tank Destroyer Battalion, February 1945.

57. AAR, 894th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

58. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 366.

59. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 378.

60. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 381-382.

61. An Informal History of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 43. Account of Col J.Barney Jr., undated, records of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

62. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 397ff.

63. AAR, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

64. AAR, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

65. AAR, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

66. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 444.

67. AAR, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

68. AAR, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

69. Sherman, 75.

70. Maj Wallace L. Clement, Lt Bruce A. Berlin, Lt James D. Freed, and Lt John B. Gregg, Eight Hundred and Fourth Tank Destroyer Battalion, 1941-1945, A History (Camp Hood, Texas: 804th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 1945), 12-13. (Hereinafter Clement, et al.) AAR, 804th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

71. AAR, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

72. Smith, et al, 84.

73. Ernest J. Fisher Jr., Cassino to the Alps: The United States Army in World War II, The Mediterranean Theater of Operations (Washington, DC: Center of Military History, 1977), 137. (Hereinafter Fisher.) Whitlock, 296. Liddell-Hart, 535.

74. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion.

75. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion.

76. AAR, 701st Tank Destroyer Battalion.

77. Fisher, 123, 126. AAR, 701st Tank Destroyer Battalion. John Hudson, letter to author, 8 February 2003.

78. Smith, et al, 87-88.

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

80. AAR, 701st Tank Destroyer Battalion.

81. S-3 Journal, 805th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

82. Congressional Medal of Honor citation, Capt William Wylie Galt Headquarters, 34th Infantry Division. Lessons Learned in Combat, November 7/8 1942-September 1944. September 1944.

83. Josowitz, 29.

84. Sherman, 88.

85. AAR, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

86. AAR, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Sherman, 81.

87. Josowitz, 30.

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

89. AAR, 804th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

90. AAR, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Combat Lessons, 701st Tank Destroyer Battalion, 1 June 1944.

91. AAR, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

92. Headquarters, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, U.S. Army. Training Memorandum Number 2, Lessons From the Italian Campaign. 15 March 1945.

93. Headquarters, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, U.S. Army. Training Memorandum Number 2, Lessons From the Italian Campaign. 15 March 1945. AAR, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Combat Lessons, 701st Tank Destroyer Battalion, 1 June 1944.

94. Headquarters, 34th Infantry Division. Lessons Learned in Combat, November 7/8 1942- September 1944. September 1944.

95. AAR, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Combat Lessons, 701st Tank Destroyer Battalion, 1 June 1944.

96. Headquarters, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, U.S. Army. Training Memorandum Number 2,