Description

741st Tank Battalion — “Vitamin Charley”
• World War II •
112 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.

Document Overview

Written by George M. Smith, Richard Meacham, and George Hillner and privately printed in 1946, this is the history of Company C — “Vitamin Charley” — of the 741st Tank Battalion, attached to the 2nd Infantry Division. It follows the company from its 1942 activation through the DD-tank landing at Omaha Beach, the fight for Hill 192, the drive on St. Lo, the liberation of Paris, the Siegfried Line, and the desperate stand at Krinkelt-Rocherath during the Battle of the Bulge. This listing is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original book.

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

Commanders: Capt. Charles R. Young (Company Commander), Capt. J. H. Covington, Jr. (Company Commander)

Unit newspaper: unknown

Table of Contents

Genesis
D-Day
Omaha Beach
Hill 192
St. Lo
Paris!
The Siegfried Line
The Bulge, December 16th
The Bulge, January 31st
Epilogue

“‘Vitamin Charley’ was the code name designating our Company in the war. We used it in talking of ourselves, and so got to thinking of the Company as ‘Charley,’ and hence almost a personality.”
— Foreword