Dare All Dangers: The 741st Tank Battalion - D-Day to VE-Day - part 1
With Bill Warnock
Part of our Allied Armored Divisions series
• Allied Armoured Divisions in WWII
Also part of our Tanks series
• Tanks and Armoured Vehicles
Part of our US Army series
• US Army in WWII
Also part of our DDay and Normandy series
• DDay and the Battle of Normandy
And our Battles for Netherlands and Germany series
• Battles for Netherlands, Belgium and Germany
The 741st waged a gruelling war that began on D-Day when twenty-seven of its amphibious tanks sank, and hapless crewmen perished in the frigid water. Other tanks from the battalion successfully landed that day. Their crews battled on Omaha beach before carrying the fight into Normandy and the green hell of hedgerow country.
After a hard-won victory in France, the battalion paraded through Paris, motoring down the Champs-Élysées, greeted by waving, screaming crowds. The euphoria of a liberated people enveloped the tankers, but the war and its agonies pulled them back.
Dare All Dangers: The 741st Tank Battalion - D-Day to VE-Day - part 1
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Dare All Dangers: The 741st Tank Battalion - D-Day to VE-Day - part 2
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Fifty years after the war, the book's author, Bill Warnock, commenced work on a narrative about the valiant crewmen and their exploits. The project began by gathering memoirs, battle maps, wartime letters, and official records. Clues also lay in US Army motion-picture film, still photographs, and aerial-reconnaissance imagery. The author hiked the former battlegrounds to familiarize himself with the terrain, architecture, and local cultures. He also conducted nearly 100 interviews with 741st veterans during the 1990s, interviews unobtainable today since the "Greatest Generation" has mostly passed on. The interviews add color and dimension to the story, something impossible to derive from the dry, laconic reports found in official records.
Bill Warnock is an award-winning author and military historian. He wrote The Dead of Winter (Penguin USA, 2005), a book chronicling efforts by him and his colleagues to recover missing US soldiers killed during the Battle of the Bulge. Those efforts continue to this very day, and he conducts public-speaking events on the subject. Mr. Warnock also writes articles for WWII History magazine and received a 2010 Distinguished Writing Award from the Army Historical Foundation. passionate about preserving history, unlocking its secrets, and getting the details right.
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