Tank Killers

98. AAR, 813th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

99. “Outnumbered ‘Armored Devils, Blast Seven Enemy Tanks.” T-Patch, 18 February 1945. Reproduced in Sherman, 163-164.

100. Sherman, 165. AAR, 813th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

101. Griess, 385.

102. Gill, 103.

103. Study of Organization, Equipment, and Tactical Employment of Tank Destroyer Units, 2.

104. AAR, 811th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

105. George S. Patton Jr., War As I Knew It (New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1980), 209. (Hereinafter Patton.)

106. Army Ground Forces Report #700, “ETO—Tank Destroyer Information Ltr No 5,” 1 March 1945.

107. AAR, 803d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

108. Boykin, General A.D. Bruce, 29.

Chapter 10: Sought, Struck, and Destroyed

1. Dunnagan, 181.

2. Wilmot, 663-664.

3. Army Ground Forces Report #700. Patton, 242.

4. Army Ground Forces Board Report, ETO, No. 777, “Armored Officers Circular Letter No. 6,” 28 March 1945.

5. Griess, 394.

6. Drawn from 614 Tank Destroyers WWII.

7. Army Ground Forces Report #700.

8. Army Ground Forces Report No 808, “Tank Destroyer Information Letter No 8,” 4 April 1945.

9. Belton Y. Cooper, Death Traps, The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II (Novato, CA: Presidio Press, Inc., 2000), 226-227. (Hereinafter Cooper.)

10. Bradley and Blair, 401.

11. Rhineland, 28-30.

12. History, 656th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

13. Omar N. Bradley, A Soldier’s Story (New York NY: The Modern Library, 1999), 511.

14. Griess, 398.

15. AAR, 773d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

16. Army Ground Forces Report No 808.

17. An Informal History of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 60-63. Operations report, 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

18. Rhineland, 33.

19. Griess, 400.

20. Spearhead in the West, 131.

21. Sparks, Victory TD, 56-57.

22. Charles B. MacDonald, The Last Offensive: 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), 322. (Hereinafter MacDonald, The Last Offensive.)

23. Liddell Hart, 678.

24. Army Ground Forces Report No 808.

25. MacDonald, The Last Offensive, 345.

26. Ibid., 352. Wilmot, 684.

27. Charles Whiting, The Battle of the Ruhr Pocket (New York, NY: Ballentine Books Inc, 1970), 62-63. (Hereinafter Whiting, The Battle of the Ruhr Pocket.)

28. S-3 Journal, 703d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

29. MacDonald, The Last Offensive, 352.

30. Cooper, 254-256.

31. 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 31-32.

32. Whiting, The Battle of the Ruhr Pocket, 140-146.

33. History, 817th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

34. AAR, 823d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

35. Josowitz, 44.

36. AAR, 602d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

37. CX-3620, 30 April 1945. F-4774, 27 April 1945. K-21657, 27 April 1945.

38. Clement, et al, 22-24. AAR, 804th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

39. AAR, 701st Tank Destroyer Battalion.

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

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

42. Army Ground Forces Report No. 944, “Tank Destroyer Information Letter No. 7,” 12 May 1945.

43. AAR, 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

44. Clement, et al, 24-26. AAR, 804th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Up From Marseille, 781st Tank Battalion (Camp Campbell, KY: The Battalion, 1945), 25.

45. AAR, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

46. Josowitz, 45.

47. “Enemy Material Destroyed,” memo, records of the 823d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

48. History, 773d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

49. History, 702d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

50. AAR, 635th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

51. Study of Organization, Equipment, and Tactical Employment of Tank Destroyer Units, 25, 28. Army Ground Forces Report No. 944.

52. Spearhead in the West, 28.

53. AAR, 634th Tank Destroyer Battalion, May 1945.

54. Sparks, Victory TD, 36-38.

55. Captain Elmer V. Sparks. “Analysis of Personnel Losses and Reinforcements for Separate TD Battalion Under Combat Conditions,” Memorandum, March 1945.

56. AAR, 634th Tank Destroyer Battalion, May 1945.

57. History, 702d Tank Destroyer Battalion.

58. Josowitz, 45.

59. Green, 35.

60. Study of Organization, Equipment, and Tactical Employment of Tank Destroyer Units, 29.

Appendix A

1. Gill.