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1. Address by Leo Laufer to his liberators at the Reunion of the 602nd Tank Destroyer Battalion Association
Document | Accession Number: 1989.186
Date:
1986 September 20
…Address by Leo Laufer to his liberators at the Reunion of the 602nd Tank Destroyer Battalion Association…
2. Dr. John D. Singer correspondence
2016.283.1 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.283.1
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1945
… 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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3. John Coulston papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0013 | RG Number: RG-09.016.01
…John Coulston was a captain with the 602nd U.S. Tank Destroyer Battalion during World War II. The unit participated in the Battle of the Bulge and…
4. Oral history interview with Joseph Kahoe
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.10 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0010
Date:
interview: 1995 February 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…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…
5. Oral history interview with Herman Wajcman
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0243
Date:
interview: 1991 July 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 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…
6. Oral history interview with J. Milnor Roberts
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0191
Date:
interview: 1992 April 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 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…
7. Oral history interview with Joseph Kirzhner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.60 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0060
Date:
interview: 1992 April 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 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…
8. Oral history interview with Wolf-Heinrich von Finckenstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.36 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0036
Date:
interview: 2004 May 07
interview: 2004 May 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and Yugoslavia in 1940; the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 as a tank officer; being wounded near Dynaburg, and then spending two years at home as…
9. Oral history interview with Jāzeps Barčs
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.456.27 | RG Number: RG-50.568.0027
Date:
interview: 2004 February 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 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…
10. Oral history interview with Jurgenson group
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.264.18 | RG Number: RG-50.234.0018
Date:
interview: 1981 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… liberation. The interviewees include Jack Colston, a captain in the 602nd tank destroyer battalion; Bob Hassen, who was part of the 261 Regiment, 65 Infantry…
11. Oral history interview with Seymour Kaplan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.177.24 | RG Number: RG-50.677.0024
Date:
interview: 2015 September 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… he had experienced; and the 692 Tank Destroyer Battalion chart.…
12. Oral history interview with Albin Irzyk
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.392.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0840
Date:
interview: 2015 October 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 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…
13. Jack Marchick papers
1995.A.1108 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1108
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1948
… 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…
14. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection
Document | RG Number: RG-09.005.32
Date:
1981
Subtitle:
Ohrdruf
…United States. Army. Tank Destroyer Battalion, 602nd…
15. Oral history interview with John Coulston, Robert Hasin, and Runyon Peterson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.264.7 | RG Number: RG-50.234.0007
Date:
interview: 1981 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…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…
16. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection
Document | RG Number: RG-09.005.41
Date:
1981 October
Subtitle:
Interview transcripts
…United States. Army. Tank Destroyer Battalion, 602nd…