70. Account of Col J. Barney Jr., undated, records of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
71. Unit history, 899th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
72. Gill, 34.
73. Greenfield, et al, 425.
74. “Report on OPERATION AVALANCHE,” 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion, 25 September 1943.
75. Greenfield, et al, 426.
76. Account of Col J. Barney Jr., undated, records of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
77. Notes of Major General Omar Bradley on visit to the 1st Armored Division, 1 March 1943. Records of the 1st Armored Division.
78. Greenfield, et al, 427.
79. Lessons learned, 1st Armored Division. The document is undated.
80. Notes of Major General Omar Bradley on visit to the 1st Armored Division, 1 March 1943. Records of the 1st Armored Division.
81. “Observer Report,” 13 March 1943. Included in “Report of Observers: Mediterranean Theater of Operations,” Volume 1, 22 December 1942-23 March 1943.
82. Bradley and Blair, 159.
83. Greenfield, et al, 428.
84. Rich Anderson, “The United States Army in World War II.” Military History Online. http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/usarmy, 2000. (Hereinafter Rich Anderson.)
85. Tunisia, 29.
86. Study of Organization, Equipment, and Tactical Employment of Tank Destroyer Units, 23.
87. An Informal History of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 31.
88. AAR, 701st Tank Destroyer Battalion, May 1944.
89. Greenfield, et al, 430-431. Study of Organization, Equipment, and Tactical Employment of Tank Destroyer Units, 23.
90. An Informal History of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 31.
91. AAR, 813th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
92. Gill, 44.
93. Unit history, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
94. Journal, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
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1. Martin Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino (Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, 1969), 73-77. (Hereinafter Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino.)
2. Ibid., 80-82.
3. Ibid., 86.
4. Operations report, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion.
5. AAR, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 89 ff.
6. Griess, 234. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 97.
7. Operations report, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 100.
8. AAR, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 104ff.
9. S-1 logs, 179th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division.
10. Griess, 234.
11. S-1 logs, 179th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division.
12. Flint Whitlock, The Rock of Anzio, From Sicily to Dachau: A History of the 45th Infantry Division (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1998), 87-88. (Hereinafter Whitlock.)
13. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 108.
14. Journal, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
15. Sherman, 16.
16. Gill, 45.
17. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 114-115.
18. Gill, 45.
19. Liddell Hart, 463.
20. Combat Lessons Learned Number 2. (U.S. War Department, 1944), 22.
21. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 115.
22. Ibid., 118.
23. Journal, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
24. Journal, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
25. Recommendation for Silver Star, 24 September 1943, records of the 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Gill, 45.
26. Journal, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
27. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 129.
28. AAR, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
29. Liddell Hart, 464.
30. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion.
31. John Hudson, letter to author, 8 February 2003.
32. An Informal History of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 34-35.
33. Account of Col J.Barney Jr., undated, records of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
34. Liddell Hart, 465.
35. Griess, 234-235. Whitlock, 99-100. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 183.
36. Quoted in Whitlock, 98.
37. Liddell Hart, 469.
38. Combat Lessons Learned Number 2, 53.
39. Military Attache Report 284, “Tank Destroyer Operations,” 13 October 1944, 1-4.284/44 (7316 1/2), records of the Adjutant General’s Office, National Archives.
40. Generalmajor Martin Schmidt, “Panzer Units, Employment in Central Italy, 1944.” MS # D-204. Historical Division, Headquarters United States Army, Europe, 1947. National Archives. (Hereinafter Schmidt.)
41. Josowitz, 19.
42. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 159.
43. “Organization and Employment of a Tank Destroyer Battalion,” HQS 701st Tank Destroyer Battalion, 11 October 1943.
44. An Informal History of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 37. Telephone interview with Randolph Mojsl, April 2002. AARs, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
45. Account of Col J.Barney Jr., undated, records of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
46. An Informal History of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 35-36.
47. Josowitz, 19. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion.
48. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 185.
49. Griess, 236. Liddell Hart, 469.
50. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 194 ff.
51. Josowitz, 20. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 199.
52. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 201.
53. Liddell Hart, 469.
54. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 181. Griess, 236.
55. Griess, 236-237.
56. AAR, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
57. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion.
58. Calvin C. Boykin, Jr., General A.D. Bruce: Father of Fort Hood (College Station, Texas: C&R Publications, 2002), 33. (Hereinafter Boykin, General A.D. Bruce.)
59. Combat Lessons Learned Number 1. (U.S. War Department, 1944), 55.
60. Schmidt.
61. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion.
62. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion.
63. AAR, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
64. Griess, 238.
65. Combat Lessons, 701st Tank Destroyer Battalion, 1 June 1944.
66. AAR, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
67. An Informal History of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 37. Account of Col J.Barney Jr., undated, records of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
68. Account of Col J.Barney Jr., undated, records of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
69. John Hudson, letter to author, 8 February 2003.
70. Sherman, 30.
71. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion.
72. Dunnagan, 161.
73. AAR, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
74. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 249.
75. The American Arsenal, 140.
76. History, 805th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
77. Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, 252-253.
78. John Hudson, letter to author, 8 February 2003.
79. Gill, 47-48.
80. AAR, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion. John Hudson, letter to author, 8 February 2003.