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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]
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 .
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 M8 armored gun system (AGS), sometimes known as the Buford, is an American light tank that was intended to replace the M551 Sheridan and TOW missile-armed Humvees in the 82nd Airborne Division and 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment (2nd ACR) of the U.S. Army respectively.
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 ...
LAV-EFSS (Expeditionary Fire Support System) Proposed replacement for LAV-M, LAV fitted with provisions to use Dragon Fire , a 120 mm recoil mortar system. An unknown variant is used by at least one civilian law enforcement agency.
In the early 2000s, the US Marine Corps tested a variant of the 2R2M system based on the LAV-M under the programme Dragon Fire and Dragon Fire II. [36] In the end, the USMC decided to g with the MO-120-RT towed mortar system to fill that need, towed by the M1161 EFSS (Growler Expeditionary Fire Support System). [37]