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 1bh08a copy.jpg American M-10 Tanks lined up in France |
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| Thanks to Lt. Col. Donald Horton USAFR (Ret.) and Daniel J. Egan for the correct designations of the weapons and vehicles on these pages. |
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This was one of Gen. "Iron Mike" O' Daniel's ideas to get his soldiers over mine fields. The tanks had whirling cables to detonate the mines before they hurt the soldiers. Unfortunately, they usually fouled the tracks on the tanks when they turned, disabling the tank. |
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A new M36 Tank Destroyer, designed for assaulting German
Tiger and Panther tanks, along with hundreds of replacements joined the
battered American Third Division at Pont a Mousson, France between the
division's heroic sacrifices in the Colmar Pocket and its crossing into
Germany. In its 188 days of battle in France, the Third Division suffered
4,500 casualties. |
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American soldiers inspect a captured German
Sonderkraftfahrzeuge (special vehicle) half-track in Strasbourg. As
Christmas 1944 approached, The Third Division was ordered to leave
Strasbourg to move south along the eastern edge of the Vosges Mountains
towards Colmar. |
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Bill Mauldin
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Audie Murphy
Last update February 16, 2019
