Description

748TH TANK BATTALION
Saga of the Rhinos
Third Army, European Theater of Operations • World War II •

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Document Overview:
Written by the men of the 748th Tank Battalion, this brief unit history traces the battalion’s activation at Camp Rucker in 1942 through training at Fort Knox, the Desert Training Center, and Camp Bouse, its deployment to England and France, and its combat drive across Germany and into Austria from April 1944 to May 1945, closing with a roll of the battalion’s honored dead. This listing is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original document.

Campaigns: Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, and Central Europe, including the breaching of the Siegfried Line at the Saar-Moselle Triangle, the Rhine crossing at Oppenheim, and the final drive from Nurnberg through Regensburg and Passau to Linz, Austria.

Commanders: Major Robert R. Glass (Battalion Commander); Major Robert S. Cockroft (Executive Officer); Capt. Peter P. Buescher (Co. B); Capt. Horace W. Smith (Co. A); Capt. Louis J. Conforti (Co. C); Capt. Roger J. MacDermid (Co. D).

Unit publication: So-Long, Tankers

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter I — Basic
Chapter II — Knox and Gismos
Chapter III — Sand, Sun, Rattlers, Las Vegas and Happy Valley
Chapter IV — The ETO
Chapter V — Mamselles and St. Michel
Chapter VI — Forty and Eight
Chapter VII — The Rhinos Advance
Our Honored Dead – KIA

“To you who read this and preserve it as a remembrance of things past, know that it is just a bit of memory, some few things to recall to mind among so many.”
— Introduction, Saga of the Rhinos