by Harry Yeide
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.
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.
Appendix B
1. Josowitz. AARs, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion.
2. Oliver. AARs, 602d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
3. AARs, 603d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
4. History, AARs, 605th Tank Destroyer Battalion. “History of the 605th TD Battalion,” pamphlet, 1945.
5. Eby. History, AARs, 607th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
6. History, AARs, 609th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
7. McGrann.
8. History, AARs, 612th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
9. 614 Tank Destroyers WWII.
10. Sparks, Victory TD.
11. History, AARs, 629th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
12. History, journal, AARs 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
13. History, 631st Tank Destroyer Battalion.
14. History, AARs, 633d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
15. History, 634th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
16. History of the 635th Tank Destroyer Battalion contained in the battalion’s periodic report on medical department activities, 30 June 19.
17. Sherman. AARs, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
18. History, AARs, 638th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
19. 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
20. Operations reports, unit history, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
21. History, AARs, 648th Tank Destroyer Battalion. The records contain major gaps.
22. AARs, 654th Tank Destroyer Battalion. James A. Sawicki, Tank Battalions of the U.S. Army (Dumfries, Va.: Wyvern Publications, 1983), 285.
23. History, 656th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
24. See, for example, History, 661st Tank Destroyer Battalion. http://www.69th-Infantry-Division.com/histories/661.html.
25. Diary, AARs, 679th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
26. History, 691st Tank Destroyer Battalion. Sawicki, 290. There are major gaps in the battalion records.
27. History, 692d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
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sp; 28. Records of 701st Tank Destroyer Battalion.
29. History, 702d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
30. History, AARs, S-3 Journal, 703d Tank Destroyer Battalion. Spearhead in the West.
31. History, AARs, 704th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
32. History, AARs, 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
33. History, AARs, 771st Tank Destroyer Battalion.
34. AARs, 772d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
35. History, 773d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
36. 774th Tank Destroyer Battalion (Nürnberg, Germany, 1945).
37. An Informal History of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
38. History, 801st Tank Destroyer Battalion.
39. Reconnaissance Company and battalion histories, AARs, 802d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
40. History, 803d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
41. Clement, et al.
42. Records of 805th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
43. 807th Tank Destroyer Battalion (Published by unit, 1945?).
44. History, AARs, 808th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
45. History, AARs, 809th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
46. History, AARs, 811th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
47. AARs, Short History of the 813th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
48. Boykin, Gare La Bête. AARs, Short History of the 814th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
49. History, 817th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
50. The 818th Tank Destroyer Battalion left almost no records behind. Bits and pieces are available in the unit’s medical detachment history, general orders, and S-3 journals for the last few weeks of the war.
51. History, 820th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Battalion records are missing for January-March 1945.
52. History, AARs, 821st Tank Destroyer Battalion.
53. History, AARs, 822d Tank Destroyer Battalion. Sawicki.
54. History, 823d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
55. History, 824th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
56. History, AARs, 825th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
57. History, AARs, 827th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
58. History, AARs, 893d Tank Destroyer Battalion. Sawacki.
59. Records of 894th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Gill, 47. Chase.
60. Records of 899th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
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