Description

A History of the Men and Armored Might of the 36th Tank Battalion
8th Armored Division • World War II •
40 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.

Document Overview:
Compiled by Frederick W. Slater and published by the 36th Tank Battalion Association, this “Invincible” battalion history follows the unit from training at Camp Polk, Louisiana through its Atlantic crossing, combat across Holland and Germany with the 8th Armored Division, and into occupation duty in Czechoslovakia. This listing is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original book.

Campaigns: Rhineland, the Rhine Crossing, the Ruhr Pocket, Central Germany

Commanders: Major John Pasco, Jr., Major Frank Moore

Unit newspaper: unknown

Table of Contents

Across the Atlantic to England
Through Holland and into Germany
Bloody Rheinberg
Across the Rhine and into Germany Again
Cleaning Out the Ruhr Pocket
In the Harz Mountains
Occupation and V-E Day

“So draws to an end the story of the Thirty-Sixth Tank Battalion and the men, living and dead, who wrote its story, in blood and steel in the annals of American Military History.”
— Frederick W. Slater, A History of the 36th Tank Battalion