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301st Tank Battalion going into action with Mark Vs at Saint-Souplet, France in October 1918 (Selle battle) The 326th (under the command of Sereno E. Brett) and 327th Tank Battalions (later renamed the 344th and 345th [7] and organized into the 304th Tank Brigade, commanded by Patton), were the first into combat, beginning with the Battle of Saint-Mihiel as part of the US IV Corps on 12 ...
When it arrived at the Tank School in Bovington, UK it was redesignated the "41st Tank Battalion." In June 1918 the AEF changed their naming system and which gave the unit its final name, 301st Heavy Tank Battalion. [2] The British agreed to provide 47 Mark V Tanks to the Americans but only if the unit was attached to the British Fourth Army. [3]
Organized 7 June 1918 in the National Army in France as Company C, 327th Battalion, Tank Corps, AEF. [2] Redesignated 12 September 1918 as Company C, 345th Battalion, Tank Corps. [2] Reorganized and redesignated 8 January 1921 as the 2nd Tank Company, allotted to the Regular Army, and assigned to the 2nd Division.
The American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) [a] was a formation of the United States Armed Forces on the Western Front during World War I, composed mostly of units from the U.S. Army. The AEF was established on July 5, 1917, in Chaumont , France under the command of then-Major General John J. Pershing .
The American Expeditionary Forces marching in France. V Corps was organized over the period 7–12 July 1918 in France as a Regular Army formation within the American Expeditionary Forces. By the end of World War I, the corps had fought in three named campaigns: the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, the Meuse–Argonne Offensive, and the Lorraine ...
The Encyclopedia of Tanks and Armored Fighting Vehicles - The Comprehensive Guide to Over 900 Armored Fighting Vehicles From 1915 to the Present Day. Thunder Bay Pr. p. 544. ISBN 978-1571458063. Hoffman, George F. (February 1973). "The Demise of the U.S. Tank Corps and Medium Tank Development Program". Military Affairs. 37 (1): 20– 25.
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The United States entered World War I on the side of the Entente Powers in April, 1917, without any tanks of its own. The following month, in the light of a report into British and French tank theories and operations, the American Expeditionary Forces' commander-in-chief, Gen. John Pershing, decided that both light and heavy tanks were essential for the conduct of the war and should be ...