Each battalion had 36 tank-destroyers divided into three companies, as well as a reconnaissance company of jeeps and armored scout cars to help ferret out the disposition of enemy armor so that the ...

More than three quarters of a century has transpired since the United States entered World War II following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In the years since this historic event, many of the men ...

More than 65 years ago, the U.S. Army's 818th Tank Destroyer Battalion was a 600-man-strong force in General George S. Patton's famed 3rd Army that tore through Nazi-occupied Europe. Soldiers went ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Descendants of the 661st Tank Destroyer Battalion visited central Ohio this week to hear from the last living member of their fathers’ unit: Columbus resident Marvin Brown.

The bus was full of young men recently drafted into the Army when it pulled out of the Hendersonville station in December 1942. It was headed down the mountain for Camp Croft in Spartanburg County, ...

Eleven veterans - out of the original 650 men that served in World War II as part of the 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion - gathered in Savannah June 14-17 to reminisce and share stories about their war ...

He said the beauty was that those bombers would obliterate a target ahead, making the ground troops' job that much easier. The next best thing was heavy artillery, with similar results. Wahl's unit ...

Staff Sgt. Clyde Choate was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions defending a German tank attack during WWII. (Source: Military Times Hall of Valor) By the time the United States entered World ...

As a result, half of the battalions converted to towed, 76-millimeter M5 guns similar in effectiveness to the M10’s own gun. These supplemented the companies of lighter 57-millimeter guns integrated ...