761st Tank Battalion
761st Tank Battalion
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The first African-American Tank Battalion allowed to serve in the US Army, the birth place Camp Claiborne to training at Camp Hood on the M4 Sherman Tank then to Europe to serve in WWII
Chapters (3)
Camp Claiborne
The formation of the 761st Tank Battalion at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana — arrival, first sight of the Shermans, training, institutional friction, an inspection, and orders to move to Camp Hood.
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Camp Hood
The 761st arrives at Camp Hood, Texas — better terrain, colder cruelty, the M5 Stuart light tanks, and the truth of Cross's letter.
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The Long Winter
Camp Hood grinds on for a year with no word on deployment. Cross's grief cracks his control; Hollis returns with the coldest verdict yet; Bates takes a real risk. The chapter ends as new equipment arrives, tarped and unidentified, in October 1944.
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