Tank Killers

(Hereinafter Guderian.)

5. Griess, 328.

6. Ibid., 331.

7. Houston, 215.

8. AAR, 702d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

9. AAR, 703d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

10. Houston, 219-221.

11. Ibid., 222.

12. Gill, 59.

13. Griess, 317.

14. See the S-3 Journal, 745th Tank Battalion, which records an order to this effect from Headquarters 1st Army, as does the S-3 Journal of the 747th Tank Battalion.

15. Allen, 71.

16. Houston, 226.

17. Richard D. Wissolik and Gary E.J. Smith, general editors, Reluctant Valor, The Oral History of Captain Thomas J. Evans (Latrobe, PA: Saint Vincent College Center for Northern Appalachian Studies, 1995), 3-4. (Hereinafter Wissolik and Smith.)

18. Buchanan, et al, 19.

19. Allen, 72-74.

20. Study of Organization, Equipment, and Tactical Employment of Tank Destroyer Units, 5.

21. Oliver, 16.

22. History, 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

23. History, 603d Tank Destroyer Battalion, August 1944.

24. Capt Elmer V. Sparks, editor-in-chief, Victory TD (Gottingen, Germany: 628th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 1945), 35. (Hereinafter Sparks, Victory TD.)

25. Wissilok and Smith, 20.

26. AAR, 703d Tank Destroyer Battalion, 30 July 1944.

27. Spearhead in the West (Frankfurt, Germany: 3d Armored Division, 1945), 28. (Hereinafter Spearhead in the West.)

28. Wissilok and Smith, 20-23.

29. Ibid., 22. Nat Frankel and Larry Smith, Patton’s Best, An Informal History of the 4th Armored Division (New York, NY: The Berkley Publishing Group, 1984), 27. (Hereinafter Frankel and Smith.)

30. Buchanan, et al, 23-24.

31. History, 603d Tank Destroyer Battalion, September 1944.

32. 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion (Gottingen, Germany: Muster-Schmidt, 1945), 22.

33. Houston, 232.

34. AAR, 702d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

35. History, 612th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

36. Spearhead in the West, 73.

37. Allen, 78.

38. History, 823d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

39. Griess, 334-335.

40. Mark J. Reardon, Victory at Mortain, Stopping Hitler’s Panzer Counteroffensive (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2002), 46-64. (Hereinafter Reardon.)

41. Guderian, 273.

42. Griess, 335.

43. Michael Reynolds, Steel Inferno: 1st SS Panzer Corps in Normandy (New York: Dell Publishing, 1997), 260.

44. History, 823d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

45. History, 823d Tank Destroyer Battalion. “30th Inf Division, Mortain Counterattack, 6-12 Aug 1944,” combat interviews, NARA, box 24038.

46. History, AAR, 823d Tank Destroyer Battalion. Reardon, 126. Interview with Lt Leon Neel, “30th Inf Division, Mortain Counterattack, 6-12 Aug 1944.”

47. General Freiherr Von Gersdorff, “The German Counterattack Against Avranches,” MS # B-725, Historical Division, Headquarters United States Army, Europe, 1946. National Archives. (Hereinafter Von Gersdorff.)

48. History, AAR, 823d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

49. Reardon, 132.

50. History, 823d Tank Destroyer Battalion. Interview with Lt Leon Neel, “30th Inf Division, Mortain Counterattack, 6-12 Aug 1944.” Reardon, 128 ff.

51. “30th Inf Division, Mortain Counterattack, 6-12 Aug 1944.”

52. Interview with Lt Francis J. Conners, “30th Inf Division, Mortain Counterattack, 6-12 Aug 1944.”

53. Northern France, CMH Pub72-30 (Washington, DC: U.S. Army Center of Military History, not dated), 15. (Hereinafter Northern France.)

54. “30th Inf Division, Mortain Counterattack, 6-12 Aug 1944.”

55. General der Panzertruppe Freiherr Heinrich Von Lutwitz, “Questions for Heinrich von Luttwitz, Commanding General of the 2d Panzer Division Until September 1944,” MS # A-904, Historical Division, Headquarters United States Army, Europe, October 1945. National Archives.

56. Von Gersdorff, 42.

57. Gill, 157.

58. Chester Wilmot, The Struggle for Europe (Ware, England: Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1997), 401-402. Griess, 335. (Hereinafter Wilmot.)

59. Sparks, Victory TD, 36-37.

60. Allen, 83ff. Griess, 336.

61. Griess, 337.

62. Gill, 62. Medal of Honor citation, Sgt. John D. Hawk.

63. AAR, S-3 journal, 773d Tank Destroyer Battalion. Hand-written account of the actions of Company C, contained in the records of the 773d Tank Destroyer Battalion. Medal citations for Lt Delbert G. Reck and S/Sgt. Edward J. Land.

64. Lt Harold H. Eby, Tank Busters, 607 Tank Destroyer Battalion “Battle with the Jerries” (Munich, Germany: 607th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 1945?), 17-18. (Hereinafter Eby.)

65. Spearhead in the West, 76ff. AAR, S-3 Journal, 703d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

66. Wilmot, 424.

67. Guderian, 299.

68. Spearhead in the West, 81.

69. Calvin C. Boykin, Jr., Gare La Bete (College Station, Texas: C&R Publications, 1995), 35. (Hereinafter Boykin, Gare La Bete.)

70. Capt Roy T. McGrann, The 610th Tank Destroyer Battalion (No publication information provided), 48. (Hereinafter McGrann.)

71. Boykin, Gare La Bete, 39-40.

72. Dunnagan, 171.

73. AAR, 635th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

74. Frankel and Smith, 39-40. Wissilok and Smith, 3.

75. Wissilok and Smith, 25.

76. History, 702d Tank Destroyer Battalion.