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(0)Jeff Danby
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This is a rarely detailed, "you are there" account of World War II combat, describing a brief but bloody tank/infantry action in August 1944. Based on six years of research-drawing from interviews, primary documents, and visits to the battlefield-The Day of the Panzer transports the reader into the ranks of L Company, 15th Regiment, Third Infantry Division, and its supporting M4s of the 756th Tank Battalion as they grapple head-on with the Wehrmacht.
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Winner, 2022 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards, Unit History
This second volume follows on from the first in recounting the WWII history of B Company, 756th Tank Battalion in vivid detail. The outfit, since upgraded from M5 light tanks to M4 'Sherman' mediums, claws through some of the toughest battles of WWII-from a horrific stalemate at Cassino in February 1944, through the bloody Operation Diadem May breakout, to the stunning...
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With the tankers of B Company, 756th Tank Battalion, in their Sherman tanks as they fight from the stalemate of Cassino through to the stunning capture of Rome. Finalist, 2021 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards After the shocking fall of France in June 1940, the U.S. Army embarked on a crash program to establish a new armored force. One of the units formed was the 756th Tank Battalion (Light), activated at Fort Lewis in June...
