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During the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, these units and their new tanks were rushed to the southern sector; two of the M24s were detached to serve with the 740th Tank Battalion of the U.S. First Army. [10] The M24 started to enter widespread use in December 1944, but they were slow in reaching the front-line combat units.
The tank destroyer battalion was a type of military unit used by the United States Army during World War II. The unit was organized in one of two different forms—a towed battalion equipped with anti-tank guns, or a mechanized battalion equipped with armored self-propelled guns.
The 70th Tank Battalion was the U.S. Army's first separate tank battalion, activated on 15 June 1940, from Regular Army troops. Four more separate tank battalions (the 191st–194th) were formed soon after from National Guard tank companies from California, Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
The 740th tank battalion was activated at Fort Knox, Ky. on March 1, 1943. It trained at Fort Knox and at Camp Bouse, Az. as a canal defense light (CDL) unit and as a standard medium tank battalion from October 15, 1943 to April 24, 1944 then sailed to England on July 26, 1944.
740th Military Police Battalion Camp Skokie Valley was a United States Army installation built in Glenview , Illinois, north of Chicago. Its archaeological remnants are found in Blue Star Memorial Woods, a property owned and managed by the Cook County Forest Preserve District .
70th Tank Battalion (attached 12–18 March 1945) 740th Tank Battalion (attached 17–28 March 1945) 753rd Tank Battalion (attached 31 March-28 May 1945) 692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion (attached 30–31 May 1945) 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion (attached 16–21 March 1945) 822nd Tank Destroyer Battalion (attached 21 March-28 May 1945)
298th Engineer Combat Battalion 740th Tank Battalion 18th FA Group (188th, 666th, and 981st FA Battalions) 142nd FA Group (195th and 266th FA Battalions) 188th FA Group (172nd, 951st, and 980th FA Battalions) 342nd, 366th, 392nd♦, 1308th, and 1313th Engineer General Service Regiments 18th, 83rd, 87th, 183rd, 193rd, 957th, and 991st FA Battalions
During the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, these units and their new tanks were rushed to the southern sector; two of the M24s were detached to serve with the 740th Tank Battalion of the U.S. First Army. The M24 started to enter widespread issue in December 1944 but they were slow in reaching the front-line combat units.