Tank Killers

77. Griess, 342.

78. Southern France, CMH Pub72-31 (Washington, DC: U.S. Army Center of Military History, not dated), 12-15. (Hereinafter Southern France.)

79. Ibid., 7.

80. Josowitz, 34.

81. AAR, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Southern France, 14.

82. AAR, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

83. Ibid. Southern France, 17.

84. Southern France, 9.

85. Ibid., 16.

86. AAR, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Sherman, 98-99. Southern France, 22- 23. Von Wietersheim, “The 11th Panzer Division in Southern France (15 August – 14 September 1944),” MS # A- 880, Historical Division, Headquarters United States Army, Europe, 1946. National Archives, 9.

87. AAR, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

88. Southern France, 25.

89. AAR, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Jeffrey J. Clarke and Robert Ross Smith, Riviera to the Rhine: United States Army in World War II, The European Theater of Operations (Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, 1993), 177. (Hereinafter Clarke and Smith.)

90. AAR, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

91. Ibid.

92. AAR, Company C, 753d Tank Battalion.

93. Sherman, 113.

94. AAR, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Southern France, 29.

95. Smith, et al, 105.

96. Southern France, 30.

97. Spearhead in the West, 86-87. Griess, 351. Blumenson, Breakout and Pursuit, 682-684.

98. Griess, 352.

99. Northern France, 25.

100. Boykin, Gare La Bete, 43-44.

101. Northern France, 25. McGrann, 51.

102. Spearhead in the West, 95-96.

103. AAR, 703d Tank Destroyer Battalion. Charles B. MacDonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign: United States Army in World War II, The European Theater of Operations (Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, 1993), 74. (Hereinafter Blumenson, The Siegfried Line Campaign.)

104. MacDonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, 76 ff.

105. AAR, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

106. Josowitz, 36.

107. Hugh M. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign: United States Army in World War II, The European Theater of Operations (Washington, DC: Historical Division, Department of the Army, 1950), 211-212. (Hereinafter Cole, The Lorraine Campaign.)

108. Oberst iG Von Kahlden, Chief of Staff, Fifth Panzer Army. “Fifth Pz Army (15 Sep – 15 Oct 44),” MS # B-472, Historical Division, Headquarters United States Army, Europe, not dated. National Archives, i-ii, 4ff. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 214. (Hereinafter Von Kahlden.)

109. Von Kahlden, 8, 18. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 201.

110. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 221.

111. History, 704th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

112. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 221.

113. Buchanan, et al, 43.

114. Capt Kenneth Koyen, The Fourth Armored Division: From the Beach to Bavaria (Munich, Germany: Herder Druck, 1946), 56. Interview with Lt Jerome J. Sacks, “4th Armd Div, Crossing of the Moselle Near Nancy, 12-22 Sep,” combat interviews, NARA, box 24092.

115. History, 603d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

116. Wissolik and Smith, 84. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 223.

117. Von Kahlden, 18.

118. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 224. Wissolik and Smith, 31. AAR, CCA, 4th Armored Division. Interview with LtCol Hal Pattison, “4th Armd Div, Crossing of the Moselle Near Nancy, 12-22 Sep,” combat interviews, NARA, box 24092.

119. Wissolik and Smith, 83. Interviews with Lt Edwin T. Leiper and Capt William A. Dwight, “4th Armd Div, Crossing of the Moselle Near Nancy, 12-22 Sep,” combat interviews, NARA, box 24092.

120. Gill, 70-71.

121. Buchanan, et al, 46.

122. Wissolik and Smith, 83. AAR, CCA, 4th Armored Division. “4th Armd Div, Crossing of the Moselle Near Nancy, 12-22 Sep,” combat interviews, NARA, box 24092.

123. Buchanan, et al, 46.

124. AAR, CCA, 4th Armored Division.

125. Interview with Lt Marvin E. Evans, “4th Armd Div, Crossing of the Moselle Near Nancy, 12-22 Sep,” combat interviews, NARA, box 24092.

126. AAR, CCA, 4th Armored Division.

127. AAR, CCA, 4th Armored Division.

128. AAR, CCA, 4th Armored Division. Buchanan, et al, 46.

129. Von Kahlden, 22ff. Generalleutnant Wend Von Wietersheim, “The 11th Panzer Division in Southern France (15 August – 14 September 1944),” MS # A-880, National Archives, 1946, 2-3.

130. Generalleutnant Wend Von Wietersheim, “The Employment of the 11th Panzer Division in Lorraine,” MS # B-364, Historical Division, Headquarters United States Army, Europe, 10 January 1947. National Archives, 12. (Hereinafter “The Employment of the 11th Panzer Division in Lorraine”.)

131. Oliver, 11.

132. Von Wietersheim, “The Employment of the 11th Panzer Division in Lorraine,” 14-15.

133. Von Kahlden, 24. Von Wietersheim, “The Employment of the 11th Panzer Division in Lorraine,” 13.

134. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 241. AAR, 602d Tank Destroyer Battalion. Oliver, 12.

135. AAR, 813th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 29 September 1944.

136. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 242. Griess, 361-362.

137. Study of Organization, Equipment, and Tactical Employment of Tank Destroyer Units, 2. AG 322 x 475 OpCG, 29 September 1944.

138. McGrann, 65, 116.

139. The American Arsenal, 60. Mesko, 17. “90mm Firing Tests.” Memo from HQ, 703d Tank Destroyer Battalion to Commanding General, First Army. 15 December 1944.

140. McGrann, 55.

141. Gabel, 53. Gill, 74. AAR, 703d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

Chapter 8: The Battle for the Border

1. “Defense of the West Wall.” ETHINT-37. Historical Division, Headquarters United States Army, Europe.