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752Nd Tank Bn United States Army Bangor Public Library Bangor Community: Digital Commons@bpl World War Regimental Histories World War Collections 1945 752nd Tank Bn United States Army Follow this and additional works at: http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his Recommended Citation United States Army, "752nd Tank Bn" (1945). World War Regimental Histories. 60. http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/60 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the World War Collections at Bangor Community: Digital Commons@bpl. It has been accepted for inclusion in World War Regimental Histories by an authorized administrator of Bangor Community: Digital Commons@bpl. For more information, please contact [email protected]. BANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARY FREDERICK W. HILL AND MARIANNE HILL · · • · · · FUND · · · ..• iioES NOT .. tf:tCULA TE ~ouofr:\gt 7~2ndTank_ J3a ' 1944'.!94~ I GEORGE W. BLESSING RAY ROBINSON FRANKLYN S. DIXON HAROLD V. PRIEST HAROLD E. WENGER ARTHUR A. PENDLETON JOHN GRUBER JAMES B. MORRIS SHERWIN R. CLINTON SEYMOUR TEED ZACCHEUS W. STEMM NED R. O'NEILL .... ... ~···...... • • • v MICHAEL J. REVELLA " • t' .... • • ! • .. • f' .. .. JAMES L. ROSOLINO :... :·.,.. ..... :. LLOYD T. DOLAN ... : .2.; ... .. ALBERT R. WESNER RALPH J. GATRELL : :·4 ~ : .<::: ~ ·. r • • • WILLIAM STOLP • .. • s .......... .. ROBERT W. CASMER ..· :.::· ~=; /:-.::: RALPH S. WILLIAMS ARMANDO D. ACHINO FRANKL. HEATON, JR. ERNEST S. WITTWER JULES F. HENSGEN EVERETT E. SEARL ROSS SIFFORD OTTO F. NOVAK DONALD C. BARRETT JOHN W. HOYER . ~~birafinn We are proud of our outfit. With a record of the highest number of consecutive combat days (315) in the 5th Army, and the status of being the only separate Armored Battalion in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operaions to be cited by the President, we feel that we are more' than justified in our pride. Many of the jobs which have been done by the com­ panies and individuals of the Battalion have heretofore been recorded only by word of mouth. While the divisions and other units with which the 752nd worked have received the .big play, we know that it has been the efforts of this outfit which have often made possible the larger successes for which credit lines were assigned elsewhere. We were, perhaps, lucky. Our casualties were compara­ tively light. Those of our buddies who are lined up swapping tales at the Great White Bar, were only figures in the casualty report, but they will live forever in our memories. It is to the memory of those we left behind in the Italian hills and valleys, that this history is respectfully dedicated. You could probably find most of the historical data con­ tained in this booklet in the War Department files-if you had the time and the pull to get at them. On the other hand, there were plenty of items worth remembering which never reached the official mausoleum. The places we've been and the things that have taken place both on and off duty will be subjects for endless reminiscence as long as there are two members of the old 752nd left to get together over a glass of cognac­ or some more civilized beverage. Your own personal party in Bone, London, Roma, Rocca Gorga, Livorno, Firenze, Vicenza and/or other assorted points may not have been mentioned herein; but you can bet your last two lire that il wasn't an intentional oversight. There just has to be a limit .to the size of such a history, and some of the items which are juicy conversation really wouldn't look so g~od in print. The high spots--and we did hit some high ones -have been covered to the best of the knowledge of all con­ cerned. 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'\ to -pe'~,ouqb\ \O \alio" as a can ,eat ~a\. 1\ nas o\ "io" s~ \,ee S\tee ' bC1'~e '\:ani< !)a\ n.i2ah"" el\ il\. cor<' case an"i l?.Ol ~ot 15'l.nd o\ \n\s o'.';~uisned ,\~ou a\\. 1n add!ess ,s ·• 'l-loodb"o''b'Bul\i ' \ man nas d,s\1 d )<no'~~ x "i nome \Ol\. ,... V. 'NO . ,nicb "e ,;\b "" an"i \itne·"' fsl C'S1,i10~ 1 ·n\< I><'·• \ \O set ,;tb !l\e a\ f\/ C 15'l.nd a \oucb V.e"icO· \.\. Colcornrn""d'"q. ~e"' r------------------ -~;,,,"'~,:,': '"' "'""''"'~''''' ...•... ~"' .. THE OF THE 751nd As a beginning it wasn't particularly Basic training had its usual ups and spectacular. Rather like planting seeds. You downs. A lot of the boys were introduced to put them in the ground-they all look pretty tanks for the first time--and took to them as much alike-but from there on, although you smoothly as a shell fits into the breech. By the can coax them along and time the outfit was well into its basic educa­ perhaps push them a bit, tion it furnished enough trained personnel to it depends pretty much on form the cadre for the 7 42nd tank Battalion. what's in the seeds them­ The new baby was commanded by Major selves what sort of a crop Hausman, formerly S-3 of the 752nd. Command you're going to have. · of the 752nd parent organization at this time There had been other was taken over by Major George F. Bender Tank Battalions activated. who had been the Battalion Executive Officer Some more -would be giv­ under Col. Anderson. en their start afterwards. Most of the kinks of basic training had June l, the day in 1941 been ironed out when 752nd left Fort Lewis that 752 was written into on April 13, 1942, headed for the Desert Train­ Army records was just ing Center at Camp Young, near Indio, Cali­ another day so far as the fornia.
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