Description

748th Tank Battalion
• World War II •
48 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.

Document Overview: Compiled and written by Charles D. Brecher of the battalion’s Mortar Platoon, this photograph album chronicles the 748th Tank Battalion from training in Wales through combat across Normandy, the Ardennes, the Saar-Moselle Triangle, the Rhineland, and into Austria, closing with V-E Day and Lt. Col. Robert R. Glass’s farewell to the unit. This listing is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original wartime publication.

Campaigns: Wales training • Normandy • Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge) • Saar-Moselle Triangle / Siegfried Line • Rhineland • Rhine River Crossing • Austria and V-E Day

Commanders: Lt. Col. Robert R. Glass, Battalion Commander

Unit newspaper: So-Long, Tankers

Table of Contents

Wales — Training Camp Quarry Heights
France — Genets, Normandy
Mortain — Graveyard of German Panzers
Coetquidan
Hagondange
The Ardennes (Bulge)
Metz — Gateway to Hell
Thionville
Germany — Siegfried Line
Germany — Rhineland
Rhine Crossing
Purple Hearts
Austria — Last Days of the War
V-E Day
Linz, Austria — Farewell
Decorations and Awards

“Give him your loyalty, your willingness, your last measure of devotion no commander could ever ask or expect more.”
— Lt. Col. Robert R. Glass, Linz, Austria, June 22, 1945