29. Ibid., 22. Nat Frankel and Larry Smith, Patton’s Best, An Informal History of the 4th Armored Division (New York, NY: The Berkley Publishing Group, 1984), 27. (Hereinafter Frankel and Smith.)
30. Buchanan, et al, 23-24.
31. History, 603d Tank Destroyer Battalion, September 1944.
32. 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion (Göttingen, Germany: Muster-Schmidt, 1945), 22.
33. Houston, 232.
34. AAR, 702d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
35. History, 612th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
36. Spearhead in the West, 73.
37. Allen, 78.
38. History, 823d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
39. Griess, 334-335.
40. Mark J. Reardon, Victory at Mortain, Stopping Hitler’s Panzer Counteroffensive (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2002), 46-64. (Hereinafter Reardon.)
41. Guderian, 273.
42. Griess, 335.
43. Michael Reynolds, Steel Inferno: 1st SS Panzer Corps in Normandy (New York: Dell Publishing, 1997), 260.
44. History, 823d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
45. History, 823d Tank Destroyer Battalion. “30th Inf Division, Mortain Counterattack, 6-12 Aug 1944,” combat interviews, NARA, box 24038.
46. History, AAR, 823d Tank Destroyer Battalion. Reardon, 126. Interview with Lt Leon Neel, “30th Inf Division, Mortain Counterattack, 6-12 Aug 1944.”
47. General Freiherr Von Gersdorff, “The German Counterattack Against Avranches,” MS # B-725, Historical Division, Headquarters United States Army, Europe, 1946. National Archives. (Hereinafter Von Gersdorff.)
48. History, AAR, 823d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
49. Reardon, 132.
50. History, 823d Tank Destroyer Battalion. Interview with Lt Leon Neel, “30th Inf Division, Mortain Counterattack, 6-12 Aug 1944.” Reardon, 128 ff.
51. “30th Inf Division, Mortain Counterattack, 6-12 Aug 1944.”
52. Interview with Lt Francis J. Conners, “30th Inf Division, Mortain Counterattack, 6-12 Aug 1944.”
53. Northern France, CMH Pub72-30 (Washington, DC: U.S. Army Center of Military History, not dated), 15. (Hereinafter Northern France.)
54. “30th Inf Division, Mortain Counterattack, 6-12 Aug 1944.”
55. General der Panzertruppe Freiherr Heinrich Von Lütwitz, “Questions for Heinrich von Lüttwitz, Commanding General of the 2d Panzer Division Until September 1944,” MS # A-904, Historical Division, Headquarters United States Army, Europe, October 1945. National Archives.
56. Von Gersdorff, 42.
57. Gill, 157.
58. Chester Wilmot, The Struggle for Europe (Ware, England: Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1997), 401-402. Griess, 335. (Hereinafter Wilmot.)
59. Sparks, Victory TD, 36-37.
60. Allen, 83ff. Griess, 336.
61. Griess, 337.
62. Gill, 62. Medal of Honor citation, Sgt. John D. Hawk.
63. AAR, S-3 journal, 773d Tank Destroyer Battalion. Hand-written account of the actions of Company C, contained in the records of the 773d Tank Destroyer Battalion. Medal citations for Lt Delbert G. Reck and S/Sgt. Edward J. Land.
64. Lt Harold H. Eby, Tank Busters, 607 Tank Destroyer Battalion “Battle with the Jerries” (Munich, Germany: 607th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 1945?), 17-18. (Hereinafter Eby.)
65. Spearhead in the West, 76ff. AAR, S-3 Journal, 703d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
66. Wilmot, 424.
67. Guderian, 299.
68. Spearhead in the West, 81.
69. Calvin C. Boykin, Jr., Gare La Bête (College Station, Texas: C&R Publications, 1995), 35. (Hereinafter Boykin, Gare La Bête.)
70. Capt Roy T. McGrann, The 610th Tank Destroyer Battalion (No publication information provided), 48. (Hereinafter McGrann.)
71. Boykin, Gare La Bête, 39-40.
72. Dunnagan, 171.
73. AAR, 635th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
74. Frankel and Smith, 39-40. Wissilok and Smith, 3.
75. Wissilok and Smith, 25.
76. History, 702d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
77. Griess, 342.
78. Southern France, CMH Pub72-31 (Washington, DC: U.S. Army Center of Military History, not dated), 12-15. (Hereinafter Southern France.)
79. Ibid., 7.
80. Josowitz, 34.
81. AAR, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Southern France, 14.
82. AAR, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
83. Ibid. Southern France, 17.
84. Southern France, 9.
85. Ibid., 16.
86. AAR, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Sherman, 98-99. Southern France, 22-23. Von Wietersheim, “The 11th Panzer Division in Southern France (15 August – 14 September 1944),” MS # A-880, Historical Division, Headquarters United States Army, Europe, 1946. National Archives, 9.
87. AAR, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
88. Southern France, 25.
89. AAR, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Jeffrey J. Clarke and Robert Ross Smith, Riviera to the Rhine: United States Army in World War II, The European Theater of Operations (Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, 1993), 177. (Hereinafter Clarke and Smith.)
90. AAR, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
91. Ibid.
92. AAR, Company C, 753d Tank Battalion.
93. Sherman, 113.
94. AAR, 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Southern France, 29.
95. Smith, et al, 105.
96. Southern France, 30.
97. Spearhead in the West, 86-87. Griess, 351. Blumenson, Breakout and Pursuit, 682-684.
98. Griess, 352.
99. Northern France, 25.
100. Boykin, Gare La Bête, 43-44.
101. Northern France, 25. McGrann, 51.
102. Spearhead in the West, 95-96.
103. AAR, 703d Tank Destroyer Battalion. Charles B. MacDonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign: United States Army in World War II, The European Theater of Operations (Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, 1993), 74. (Hereinafter Blumenson, The Siegfried Line Campaign.)
104. MacDonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, 76 ff.
105. AAR, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
106. Josowitz, 36.
107. Hugh M. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign: United States Army in World War II, The European Theater of Operations (Washington, DC: Historical Division, Department of the Army, 1950), 211-212. (Hereinafter Cole, The Lorraine Campaign.)
108. Oberst iG Von Kahlden, Chief of Staff, Fifth Panzer Army. “Fifth Pz Army (15 Sep – 15 Oct 44),” MS # B-472, Historical Division, Headquarters United States Army, Europe, not dated. National Archives, i-ii, 4ff. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 214. (Hereinafter Von Kahlden.)
109. Von Kahlden, 8, 18. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 201.
110. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 221.
111. History, 704th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
112. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 221.
113. Buchanan, et al, 43.
114. Capt Kenneth Koyen, The Fourth Armored Division: From the Beach to Bavaria (Munich, Germany: Herder Druck, 1946), 56. Interview with Lt Jerome J. Sacks, “4th Armd Div, Crossing of the Moselle Near Nancy, 12-22 Sep,” combat interviews, NARA, box 24092.