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The M10 tank destroyer, formally known as 3-inch gun motor carriage M10 or M10 GMC, was an American tank destroyer of World War II. After US entry into World War II and the formation of the Tank Destroyer Force, a suitable vehicle was needed to equip the new battalions. By November 1941, the Army requested a vehicle with a gun in a fully ...
Pages in category "World War II tank destroyers of the United States" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The tank destroyer units were formed in response to the German use of massed formations of armored vehicles units early in WWII. The tank destroyer concept envisioned the battalions acting as independent units that would respond at high speed to large enemy tank attacks. In this role, they would be attached in groups or brigades to corps or ...
A M10 Wolverine tank destroyer of the 628th Tank Destroyer Battalion, in Dreux, Normandy during August 1944. The United States Army raised a large number of tank destroyer units during World War II. For most of the war US Army doctrine called for tank destroyers to primarily operate as concentrated tank destroyer battalions during combat.
Nathan 'Nate' B. Baskind (1916 – June 23, 1944) was a Jewish-American officer in the United States Army's 899th Tank Destroyer Battalion who served during World War II. [1] He was killed in action near Cherbourg, Normandy, 17 days after the D-Day landings. Baskind's remains were unidentified for decades until advances in DNA technology led to ...
George Strock (July 3, 1911 – August 23, 1977) was a photojournalist during World War II when he took a picture of three American soldiers who were killed during the Battle of Buna-Gona on the Buna beach. It became the first photograph to depict dead American troops on the battlefield to be published during World War II.
The tank killers: a history of America's World War II tank destroyer force. Casemate. ISBN 978-1-932033-80-9. Josewitz, Edward J. (1945). An Informal History of the 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion. Gill, Lonnie (1992). Tank Destroyer Forces, WWII. Turner Publishing Company. ISBN 0-938021-93-1.
Charley Havlat is interred at the Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial, near Saint-Avold, France, in Plot C, Row 5, Grave 75. [10] The Havlat family was not informed of the fact that Charley was the last American soldier to die in Europe during the Second World War. [11]