Description

825th Tank Destroyer Battalion

Highway

12th Army Group • World War II

78 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.

Document Overview

This is the official unit history of the 825th Tank Destroyer Battalion, code-named “Highway,” compiled by the battalion’s own editorial staff (Editor in Chief Cpl. Michael J. Sheridan, with M/Sgt. Edward E. Hoffman, T/4 Nicholas J. Pelliccio, T/4 Dominic DeRosa, and Cpl. John T. Macmillan) and published in Wiesbaden, Germany in 1945. It traces the battalion from its activation at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma in August 1942 through stateside training, the North Dakota wheat harvest, the Tennessee maneuvers, deployment to England and France, combat duty defending 12th Army Group headquarters, and the fighting at Stavelot, Malmedy, and Rochefort during the Battle of the Bulge, concluding with occupation duty in Germany at war’s end.
The file also includes full company rosters, an awards and decorations list, and a chronology of stations. This listing is for a digital download of a scanned copy of the original printed history.

Campaigns: Northern France • Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge) • Rhineland • Central Europe

Commanders: Lt. Col. Rudolph H. Mieding (Battalion Commander) • Capt. John L. East • Capt. Joseph H. Dibert • Capt. John H. McCord • 1st Lt. Jack Doherty

Unit paper: unknown

Table of Contents

Foreword
Forward — March! (Battalion History)
Awards and Decorations
Officers, Front and Center
Roll Call: Headquarters Company
Roll Call: Company “A”
Roll Call: Company “B”
Roll Call: Company “C”
Roll Call: Medical Detachment
They Also Served (Allied Civilian Volunteers)
Where and When (Unit Chronology)

“We have reached the cross roads, and will go our many separate ways.”
— Lt. Col. Rudolph H. Mieding, Battalion Commander