Description

History of the Fifth Tank Destroyer Group
XV Corps • World War II •
32 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.

Document Overview:
Written by Captain Albert W. Wolfe, Group Historian, this history traces the “Hellcat” 5th Tank Destroyer Group from its activation at Camp Hood, Texas, through the campaigns of Normandy, Northern France, the Rhineland, and Central Europe while attached to the XV Corps, concluding with V-E Day in Salzburg, Austria. This listing is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original book.

Campaigns: Normandy, Northern France, the Rhineland, the Ardennes, Central Europe

Commanders: Colonel Harrison Herman, Colonel Leslie E. Jacoby

Unit newspaper: unknown

Table of Contents
Activation and Training at Camp Hood
Voyage Overseas and the Landing at Utah Beach
Normandy and Northern France
The Alsace-Lorraine Region and the Battle of the Bulge
The Siegfried Line and the Drive to the Rhine
Crossing the Rhine into Central Europe
Salzburg and V-E Day

“V-E Day had come and gone. If one listened closely he could almost hear phantom voices whispering, ‘What now?’”
— Captain Albert W. Wolfe, Group Historian, History of the Fifth Tank Destroyer Group