OH 1216 | Oral History

OH 1216

Businessman. His experiences as an officer in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-war stateside training; forming and training the 741st Tank Battalion; amphibious training in England prior to the Normandy invasion; assignment as operations officer for the 741st; the fate of the DD tanks on D-Day; assignment as executive officer for the 741st; attachment of the 741st to the 2nd Infantry Division; combat in the hedgerow country of Normandy; comparisons and contrasts between the U. S. Sherman tanks and German Tiger and Panther tanks; tank-infantry coordination; troop replacement system; Saint Lô, July, 1944; Falaise Gap; liberation of Paris; Rhineland Campaign; Siegfried Line, September, 1944; Ardennes Offensive and Battle of the Bulge, December, 1944-January, 1945; liberation of German concentration camps; liberation of Pilsen, Czechoslovakia; relations between American and Soviet troops; postwar recruiting duty in Illinois, 1946-48.

About this Oral History

Physical Description 71 pp.
Terms of Use Open
Interviewer(s) Ronald E. Marcello
Date of Interview January 15, 1998

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