How wrong I was. 8th Tank Battalion 8th Tank Battalion is one of two tank battalions within the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. First, we overestimated the range and the first shot went way over the target, but the shot was a white phosphorus shell and I had ordered an armor piercing shell to be loaded. Also, Dusseldorf that was east of the Rhein River. Strong controversy flared among the officers of the division. The division landed at Utah Beach on 24 July 1944 under the command of Major General Lunsford E. Oliver, and moved into combat on 2 August, driving south through Coutances, Avranches, and Vitré, and across the Mayenne River to seize the city of Le Mans, 8 August. Similarly, the 72nd received the 133rd Machine Gun Battalion. Relieved from assignment to division on 1 February 1942. Kunst. One had a good front end where the drive train is and the other had the basic part of the tank and they put those parts together and this made up the tank I got. Marie Pass and burst into the Alsatian Plains. There was a big gun in there, 88 MM. From:     Paul L. Lehman. were in the vicinity of Ossenberg just outside of Rheinberg. Under the supervision of 1SG Alfredo Barrera, the soldiers trained and deployed to Iraq. This honor was bestowed as the result of heroic fighting in the December Roer River salient. I don't know who was leading, but I guess things didn't look right. After assisting the 34th Infantry Division in the attack on Cassino and fighting defensively along the Gari River, the severely depleted 36th withdrew from the line on 12 March, for rest and recreation. On 20 December 1944, the division resumed the attack, advancing northward along the Rhine River to Mannheim meeting heavy resistance at Haguenau, Oberhöfen, and Wissembourg. On 24 October the 143rd Infantry relieved the 100th and 3rd Battalion who were sent to Belmont, another small town to the north, for some short-lived rest. ABMC honors the services of overseas U.S. Armed Forces by maintaining and promoting America's overseas commemorative … M24 light tank, Company D, 36th Tank Battalion, 8th Armored Division, Rheinberg, Germany, March 1945 This tank is finished in typical late-war US Army markings and is painted in lusterless olive drab. Shindand Air Base is located in the western part of Afghanistan in the Herat province, 7 miles northeast of the city of Sabzwar. Apparently none of the other tank commanders thought about helping the people up front. When the road is rough and when the fight is tough Over the years since 1945, I often wondered about our short time loader as to where he is living and what his name is, but not knowing, I can only say 'Thanks buddy, whoever you are'. During its time at Camp Edwards, the division conducted mock assaults of Martha's Vineyard Island in preparation for future amphibious operations. Once again I shouted into the intercom mike at the top of my voice so that the intercom was hardly necessary: Armor piercing! . My tank was one that had been made from two that were knocked out. Date:      2003 Grant D. Everly, 35750977Company "C" 36th Tank Bn 3/26/99, Subject:  The Battle of Rheinberg Two days later, the division was released from attachment to the French First Army, and returned to the control of VI Corps, now under Major General Edward H. Brooks, under the Seventh Army, commanded by Lieutenant General Alexander Patch. These photos are (with a few exceptions) from the period 1943 to 1945. As we went on to the east end of town, I think the main street went east and west; there was one of our tanks. The houses there had wooden fences in front of them. 5 Army Commendation Medals with Valor Devices were awarded to soldiers of 1st Platoon, Second Squad in recognition of the defeat of an ambush on a State Department convoy in central Baghdad. 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Normally we were rather good at range estimation because gunner Walter Boyd, Detroit; driver O'Neil Miles, Fairfax, Missouri; Ml; bow gunner Marvin Smith, Atlanta, Georgia; and I would each make an estimate and I as the tank commander with the best view would decide the range, usually by averaging the four estimates. While we were waiting without moving forward the Infantry disappeared. 20-aug-2018 - company B 36th tank battalion 8th armored division Rheinberg germany 6 march 1945. Pushing up from Rome, the 36th encountered sharp resistance at Magliano, but reached Piombino on 26 June, before moving back to Paestum for rest and recreation. It marks the day that the "Spartan" battalion officially received the men and equipment for its new rifle company - "Delta Company" - as authorized by Division 86. These tanks occupied too much of the narrow road and prevented our further advance, forcing us to fall in line behind them. I spend a lot of time on the Thundering Herds website, and it’s good stuff. The 61st Field Artillery Brigade, 131st, 132nd, and 133rd Field Artillery Regiments, 111th Regiment Engineers, 111th Signal Battalion and the 111th Supply Train comprised the rest of the 36th Division. The division then moved to Mansfield, Louisiana, and took part in both the August and September 1941 Louisiana Maneuvers. I was apprehensive, to be going, because that's where the war was. On April 6, 1945, Company A, 36th Tank Battalion, Eighth Armored Division was given the task of making an 'end run' around an area near Berlingson, Germany, in an attempt to encircle a large number of German troops. On 15 November 1943, Major General John S. Wood who commanded the 4th Armored Division, announced that the 4th Armored Division would deploy overseas. The 88 MM guns were better than anything we had. Perhaps because the Tiger was located in a depression, we badly overestimated the distance to the tiger as being one thousand yards. The new unit also received a new commander, Major General Edwin St. John Greble. It cut my scalp and knocked me out briefly. On April 6, 1945, Company A, 36th Tank Battalion, Eighth Armored Division was given the task of making an 'end run' around an area near Berlingson, Germany, in an attempt to encircle a large number of German troops. From 1942 to 1944 it functioned as a training command stationed at Camp Polk, Louisiana. 2003. Hierbei täuschten die Alliierten erfolgreich die Wehrmacht und machten ihr weis, dass die tatsächliche Invasion in der Gegend von Dünkirchen stattfinden würde. The division departed the New York Port of Embarkation (NYPOE) on 2 April 1943, for service in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO). One time we were going down kind of a small road, it was not a main highway and stopped for some reason and were sitting there on the road in a tank and I was standing with my head out of the turret, your head would stick up so that your neck was about even with the rim of the turret.