Tank Killers

This is an interview with Major Herbert Buchs, aide to Generaloberst Alfred Jodl, 28 September 1945. National Archives.

2. Charles B. MacDonald, The Battle of the Bulge (London: Guild Publishing, 1984), 62.

3. Wilmot, 478-9. MacDonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, 31 ff. Griess, 355.

4. MacDonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign , 34-5.

5. AAR, 702d Tank Destroyer Battalion, October 1944.

6. History, 823d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

7. Macdonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, xi.

8. “Documentation of Siegfried Line,” memo in records of 803d Tank Destroyer Battalion, 12 October 1944.

9. AAR, 803d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

10. AARs, 803d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

11. Griess, 362. Stephen E. Ambrose, Citizen Soldiers (New York, NY: Touchstone, 1997), 153.

12. Macdonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, 263ff.

13. Rhineland, CMH Pub72-25 (Washington, DC: U.S. Army Center of Military History, not dated), 15. (Hereinafter Rhineland.)

14. History, AAR, summaries of medal citations, 823d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

15. Macdonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, 291-292.

16. “1st Inf Div, Battle of Aachen, 8-22 Oct 44,” combat interviews, NARA, box 24012.

17. “1st Inf Div, Battle of Aachen, 8-22 Oct 44.”

18. “1st Inf Div, Battle of Aachen, 8-22 Oct 44.” G-3 Report of Operations, 1st Infantry Division. MacDonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign , 310.

19. Combat Lessons Learned Number 6. (U.S. War Department, 1945), 18- 19.

20. “1st Inf Div, Battle of Aachen, 8-22 Oct 44.” AAR, 634th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

21. “1st Inf Div, Battle of Aachen, 8-22 Oct 44.” Rhineland. 15.

22. AAR, 635th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

23. AAR, 821st Tank Destroyer Battalion, October 1944.

24. Ibid.

25. AAR, 773d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

26. Dunnagan, 81, 147.

27. Ibid., 147-148.

28. AARs, 645th and 636th Tank Destroyer battalions.

29. Commendation, from 183d Field Artillery Group to Commanding General, XII Corps Artillery, 29 October 1944.

30. S-3 Journal, 899th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

31. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion.

32. Macdonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, 381-389.

33. Clarke and Smith, 351, 361.

34. Ibid., 368ff. AAR, 813th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

35. Clarke and Smith, 371ff.

36. An Informal History of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 54. AAR, 813th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

37. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion. Josowitz, 36.

38. Sherman, 139.

39. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 373.

40. Ibid., 266.

41. AAR, 773d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

42. Allen, 136. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 410-412.

43. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 468.

44. MacDonald, The Battle of the Bulge, 64-65.

45. Eby, 32-33. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 581.

46. Rhineland, 17. Bradley and Blair, 343.

47. Rhineland, 18-19.

48. Sparks, Victory TD, 47-49.

49. Rhineland, 21.

50. Macdonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, 497.

51. Rhineland, 20.

52. Macdonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, 530.

53. Von Senger und Etterlin, 200-201.

54. Houston, 310-313. Macdonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, 531.

55. Houston, 314-316. AAR, 702d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

56. History, AAR, 771st Tank Destroyer Battalion. Medal citations for Lt George F. Killmer Jr. and Sgt. Walter F. Nedza.

57. Houston, 314-316. AAR, 702d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

58. GNMAR 321, 19 November 1944.

59. MacDonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, 577.

60. Drawn from 614 Tank Destroyers WWII (no publisher listed), which describes the battle by quoting medal citations and commendations.

61. Wilmot, 621.

Chapter 9: The Battle of the Bulge

1. MacDonald, The Battle of the Bulge, 21ff.

2. Wilmot, 577.

3. Allen, 163, 165.

4. Griess, 371-372.

5. MacDonald, The Battle of the Bulge, 64-65.

6. Wilmot, 576.

7. Hugh M. Cole, Battle of the Bulge: United States Army in World War II, The European Theater of Operations (Washington, DC: Center of Military History, 1993), 98. (Hereinafter Battle of the Bulge.)

8. “801st Has Early Origin,” undated manuscript in the records of the 801st Tank Destroyer Battalion.

9. AAR, 820th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

10. Griess, 379.

11. AAR, 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

12. AAR, 803d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

13. Wilmot, 583-584.

14. Cole, Battle of the Bulge, 90-91.

15. AAR and S-3 journal, 801st Tank Destroyer Battalion.

16. Cole, Battle of the Bulge, 91.

17. AAR and S-3 journal, 801st Tank Destroyer Battalion. Cole, Battle of the Bulge, 94.

18. AAR and S-3 journal, 801st Tank Destroyer Battalion.