Description

Battery A, 744th Field Artillery Battalion

 · World War II ·

116 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.

Document Overview

“Hilltown Able: A Unit Memoir of Battery A, 744th Field Artillery Battalion, to V-E Day” was compiled and edited by William F. Sandford, with photos and publication by John Sokol, and printed in Munich in 1944/45. It chronicles the battery from its April 1944 activation at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas through overseas movement to England and combat with the Third Army’s XX Corps across the Saar, Rhine, Danube, and Isar to V-E Day, followed by personnel rosters by section and a pictorial closing. This listing is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original book.

Campaigns: Rhineland · Central Europe

Commanders: Lt. Col. Robin B. Gardner (Battalion) · Capt. Robert J. Elliott (Battery A) · Lt. John H. Folks (Acting Commander)

Unit newspaper: unknown

Table of Contents

The Third Army Foreword

General Patton’s Commendation

Chronology

Narrative

B.C.’s-Eye View

R.O. Rovings

V-E Day Proclamation

Battery Officers

Staff Officers

Headquarters Section

First Section

Second Section

Third Section

Fourth Section

Fifth Section

The Drivers

Survey Section

Wire Section

Radio Section

The Mess Staff

Able Battery Favorites

Our Ball Team

Germany (Verse)

Pictorial

“Of all the Corps I have commanded, yours has always been the most eager to attack and the most reasonable and cooperative.”

— General George S. Patton, Jr., Commendation to XX Corps