The 761st Black Panther Tank Battalion In World War Ii

Author : Joe Wilson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786406678
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 761st "Black Panther" Tank Battalion in World War II written by Joe Wilson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their motto was "Come Out Fighting," and that they did without fail. The 761st Tank Battalion - the famed "Black Panthers" - was the first African American armored unit to enter combat, and in World War II they fought in four major Allied campaigns and inflicted 130,000 casualties on the German army. And the fighting was intense - only one out of every two Black Panthers made it home alive. This is the complete history of the 761st, told in large part through the words of the surviving members of the unit. Richly illustrated, this work recounts how the unit was given long overdue recognition - the Presidential Unit Citation and the Medal of Honor - in recent years.

Author : Joe Wilson, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786428625
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 761st "Black Panther" Tank Battalion in World War II written by Joe Wilson, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-07-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive record of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first African American armored unit to enter combat. Assigned at various times to the Third, Seventh and Ninth armies, the "Black Panthers" fought major engagements in six European countries and participated in four major Allied campaigns, inflicting heavy casualties on the German army and capturing or destroying thousands of weapons, despite severe weather, difficult terrain, heavily fortified enemy positions, extreme shortages of replacement personnel and equipment, and an overall casualty rate approaching 50 percent. Richly illustrated and containing many interviews with surviving members of the 761st, this work gives long overdue recognition to the unit whose motto was "Come Out Fighting." It recounts the events that in 1978--33 years after the end of World War II--led to the 761st Tank Battalion's receiving a Presidential Unit Citation, the highest honor a unit can receive. Also described are the efforts that resulted, in 1997--53 years after giving his life on the battlefield--in the Medal of Honor being posthumously awarded to Sergeant Ruben Rivers.

Author : Charles W. Sasser
Publisher : Pocket Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patton's Panthers written by Charles W. Sasser and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Patton's Panthers" tells the fascinating true story of the first African-American armored unit to enter combat for the U.S. Army.

Author : Kent Haruf
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400043018
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eventide written by Kent Haruf and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-05-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Best Books of The Year: Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Weekly, The Plain Dealer, and Rocky Mountain News Kent Haruf, award-winning, bestselling author of Plainsong returns to the high-plains town of Holt, Colorado, with a novel of masterful authority. The aging McPheron brothers are learning to live without Victoria Roubideaux, the single mother they took in and who has now left their ranch to start college. A lonely young boy stoically cares for his grandfather while a disabled couple tries to protect their a violent relative. As these lives unfold and intersect, Eventide unveils the immemorial truths about human beings: their fragility and resilience, their selfishness and goodness, and their ability to find family in one another.

Author : Gina M. DiNicolo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781594162817
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Panthers written by Gina M. DiNicolo and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Black Panthers: A Story of Race, War, and Courage : the 761st Tank Battalion in World War II, historian Gina M. DiNicolo tells the full and unvarnished history of this important American fighting force.

Author : Joe Wilson, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476629447
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 758th Tank Battalion in World War II written by Joe Wilson, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1941, the U.S. Army activated the 758th Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit. By December 1944 they were fighting the Axis in Northern Italy, from the Ligurian Sea through the Po Valley and into the Apennine Mountains, where they helped breach the Gothic Line—the Germans’ last major defensive line of the Italian Campaign. After the war the 758th was deactivated but was reformed as the 64th Tank Battalion, keeping their distinguished insignia, a tusked elephant head over the motto “We Pierce.” They entered the Korean War still segregated but returned fully integrated (though discrimination continued internally). Through the years, they fought with almost every American tank—the Stuart, the Sherman, the Pershing, the Patton and today’s Abrams. Victorious over two fascist (and racist) regimes, many black servicemen returned home to what they hoped would be a more tolerant nation. Most were bitterly disappointed—segregation was still the law of the land. For many, disappointment became a determination to fight discrimination with the same resolve that had defeated the Axis.

Author : Franz-Wilhelm Lochmann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811769283
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Combat History of German Tiger Tank Battalion 503 in World War II written by Franz-Wilhelm Lochmann and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells—with firsthand accounts as well as numerous, never-before-seen photographs—the combat history of German Tiger Tank Battalion 503, the senior Tiger battalion of the German Army, equipped with both the Tiger I and the King Tiger. The unit saw action in the attempted relief of Stalingrad, the tremendous tank engagements at Kursk, and the bitter fighting to relieve German units encircled at the Tscherkassy Pocket. It then defended against the Allies in Normandy in 1944, and ended the war with desperate fighting in Hungary and Austria.

Author : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780739312063
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brothers in Arms written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Forty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1616732644
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 4th Armored Division in World War II written by George Forty and published by . This book was released on with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Marquis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781943593279
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soldiers of Freedom written by Samuel Marquis and published by . This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: