Tank Killers

19. AAR, 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

20. AAR, 820th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

21. Recommendation for Unit Citation, Company C, 811th Tank Destroyer Battalion. History, 811th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

22. Cole, Battle of the Bulge, 104. History, 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

23. Cole, Battle of the Bulge, 109ff. 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 28. History, 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

24. Cole, Battle of the Bulge, 115.

25. History, 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

26. DSC citation, Lt Robert A. Parker. 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 28.

27. Interview with Capt Ralph H. Stallworth, “2d Inf Div, Battle of the Bulge, 16 Dec 44-16 Jan 45,” combat interviews, NARA, box 24017. Medal citation, Cpl. Henry J. McVeigh.

28. Cole, Battle of the Bulge, 120.

29. Ibid., 109ff. 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 28. History, 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

30. History, 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

31. “Sixth Pz Army (16 Nov 44 – 4 Jan 45),” ETHINT-21. Historical Division, Headquarters United States Army, Europe, 1945. This is an interview with Generalmajor (Waffen SS) Fritz Kraemer, 8–9 August 1945.

32. “Sixth Pz Army in the Ardennes Offensive,” ETHINT-16. Historical Division, Headquarters United States Army, Europe, 1945. This is an interview with Generaloberst (Waffen SS) Josef “Sepp” Dietrich, 8-9 August 1945. National Archives.

33. Wilmot, 580.

34. Griess, 380.

35. Boykin, Gare La Bete, 71.

36. MacDonald, The Battle of the Bulge, 327, 468. Griess, 380.

37. MacDonald, The Battle of the Bulge, 466, 469-470. Boykin, Gare La Bete, 78.

38. MacDonald, The Battle of the Bulge, 479-480.

39. Cole, Battle of the Bulge, 402.

40. MacDonald, The Battle of the Bulge, 470-472. Boykin, Gare La Bete, 79.

41. AAR, 814th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Cole, Battle of the Bulge, 405.

42. MacDonald, The Battle of the Bulge, 472-475.

43. Boykin, Gare La Bete, 80-81.

44. MacDonald, The Battle of the Bulge, 478-479.

45. Ibid., 482-483.

46. Boykin, Gare La Bete, 83.

47. AAR, 814th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

48. MacDonald, The Battle of the Bulge, 483.

49. Ibid., 485.

50. Boykin, Gare La Bete, 101-102.

51. Wilmot, 584-585.

52. Boykin, Gare La Bete, 105.

53. Wilmot, 592.

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

55. “Operations with 82d Airborne Division, 20 Dec 44-1 Jan 45,” attached to AAR, 703d Tank Destroyer Battalion, for February 1945.

56. Study of Organization, Equipment, and Tactical Employment of Tank Destroyer Units, 19.

57. AAR, 609th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Telephone interview with John Pilon, September 2002.

58. AAR, 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

59. Recommendation for distinguished unit citation, 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

60. AAR, 609th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Telephone interview with John Pilon, September 2002. Gill, 96. MacDonald, The Battle of the Bulge, 490.

61. MacDonald, The Battle of the Bulge, 490-491. Telephone interview with John Pilon. AAR, 609th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Gill, 96.

62. Cole, Battle of the Bulge, 452-453.

63. Ibid., 453-454.

64. S-3 journal, 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion. MacDonald, The Battle of the Bulge, 498.

65. Cole, Battle of the Bulge, 455. MacDonald, The Battle of the Bulge, 499. Telephone interview with John Pilon.

66. MacDonald, The Battle of the Bulge, 500.

67. AAR, 609th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Recommendation for Unit Citation, Company C, 811th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

68. S-3 journal, 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

69. AAR, 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

70. AAR, S-3 journal, 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

71. Cole, Battle of the Bulge, 466.

72. AARs, 609th and 705th Tank Destroyer battalions. S-3 journal, 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

73. Cole, Battle of the Bulge, 468.

74. Ibid., 470. AAR, 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

75. Cole, Battle of the Bulge, 472-474.

76. AAR, 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

77. S-3 journal, 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

78. Memorandum dated 18 February 1945, “4th Armd Div, Defense of Bastogne, 17 to 26 December 44,” combat interviews, NARA, box 24102.

79. “Employment of Panzer Forces on the Western Front.” ETHINT-39. Historical Division, Headquarters United States Army, Europe, 1945. This is an interview with Generaloberst Heinz Guderian, 16 August 1945. National Archives.

80. AAR, S-3 journal, 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

81. AAR, 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Unit citation.

82. AAR, 609th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

83. Allen, 174-179.

84. Wilmot, 599.

85. Wissolik and Smith, 33-34.

86. Cole, Battle of the Bulge, 513.

87. Ibid., 525.

88. Ibid., 475, 527-529.

89. Wissolik and Smith, 39.

90. Cole, Battle of the Bulge, 480.

91. Buchanan, et al, 56.

92. Houston, 333-335.

93. Ibid., 339.

94. MacDonald, The Battle of the Bulge, 590.

95. Josowitz, 38.

96. Charles Whiting, The Other Battle of the Bulge, Operation Northwind (Chelsea, Michigan: Scarborough House, 1990), 18. Rhineland, 25.

97. Sherman, 159.