… the United States Army, entering service in November 1942. He was assigned to the Third Army, 773rd Tank Battalion, in the European Theatre, initially…

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… Army, Third Army, 773rd Tank Destroyer Battalion, as a surgeon and commanding medical officer, 1944-1945. The letters, addressed to his wife Genise in…

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…Joseph Kahoe describes being with the United States 761st Tank Battalion in Austria when he and his unit saw individuals coming out of a prison camp…

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…,640 --> 00:01:12,630 You were-- 19 00:01:12,630 --> 00:01:17,310 Yes, where I was, we were the 761st Tank Battalion, 20 00:01:17,310 --> 00:01:21,660 was…

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…:10,370 --> 00:03:12,290 The vast thrusts of the German offensive 52 00:03:12,290 --> 00:03:16,340 were spearheaded by waves of tanks, tanks of every…

… in several German towns; not leaving the front line from November 1944 to April 1945; how he had dreams of combat for many years after; being in a tank…

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…. His 12th Armor division relieved the 4th division which was fatally caught in the deep mud. Many men lost their lives because of their tanks being stuck…

… beginning of 1944; attending a Russian tank school to learn how to drive a tank and fight; and returning to Poland after the war to discover the fates of his…

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… hundred miles. On the way the German tanks were even ___. Killed two women on our truck. A truck...it was on the truck and in Europe at that time we had a…

… at Kiev University until he had to stop when the war started; being called to the army in 1942 and serving until 1947; attending the tank institute in…

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…. In 1943 Isaak went to tank institute and became a tank operator by the end of the war. He went all the way through Belarus and Poland and was wounded…

… infantry reserve service in May 1940; working in Detroit, MI for a machine tool manufacturer, working in the Chrysler tank arsenal on General Grant tanks…

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… to the Chrysler tank arsenal where they were making the brand new medium tank, then called the General Grant. Our tools were being used to machine…

… perished; his experience driving tanks in the Russian Army; being captured after fighting in Nikolaiev (Mykolayiv), Ukraine and becoming a prisoner of war in…

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… Ural Mountains. Three brothers survived, but their father, a hat maker, was killed fighting in the war. His mother was exterminated. Joseph drove tanks…

… Cervonka, Jēkabpils rajons); his family; the retreat of the Red Army; Germans arriving and seeing the German tank troops; the evacuation of some Communist…

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… Chervonka before splitting into the directions of Daugavpils and Riga; describes German tank troops and recalls a sense of awe they inspired; says that a few…

… to 1945; being a captain and commanding a medium tank company; being present at the liberation of three concentration camps in Ahlen near Hannover…

…United States. Army. Tank Battalion, 786th…

… diary store; going to the Hashomer Hatzair summer colony in Jeleśnia, Poland; seeing a tank for the first time; returning home in August 1939 and…

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…, Germany and (former) Czechoslovakia. The camp was located in Jelesnia. David saw, for the first time in his life, a (“tiger”) tank. When he came home, it…

… for three days; being the operations officer and living in a tank for eight or nine months close to several other men; his memories of the winter of…

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…th Tank Battalion they had in the war had six of them, A, B, C-- So how many people would have been under you in the war when you say you had six companies…

… enlisted in the United States Army as a corporal. He was deployed to Europe and in April 1945, as a First Lieutenant in Company C of the 654th Tank Destroyer…

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… and in April 1945, as a First Lieutenant in Company C of the 654th Tank Destroyer Battalion, liberated a concentration camp, which is likely Buchenwald…

…United States. Army. Tank Destroyer Battalion, 602nd…

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… Liberation -- 4 April 1945 2:30 (C) When they first entered (the camp), the first thing the tank commander did was shoot the SS men. Those SS men that were…

… US attitudes towards the British; night fighting techniques; the vulnerability of Sherman tanks; the German assault on Anzio beachhead and the air war…

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…: vulnerability of Sherman tanks; German assault on Anzio beachhead; accuracy of German artillery; air war over Anzio; Allied attempt of breakout of beachhead…

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