115. History, 603d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
116. Wissolik and Smith, 84. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 223.
117. Von Kahlden, 18.
118. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 224. Wissolik and Smith, 31. AAR, CCA, 4th Armored Division. Interview with LtCol Hal Pattison, “4th Armd Div, Crossing of the Moselle Near Nancy, 12-22 Sep,” combat interviews, NARA, box 24092.
119. Wissolik and Smith, 83. Interviews with Lt Edwin T. Leiper and Capt William A. Dwight, “4th Armd Div, Crossing of the Moselle Near Nancy, 12-22 Sep,” combat interviews, NARA, box 24092.
120. Gill, 70-71.
121. Buchanan, et al, 46.
122. Wissolik and Smith, 83. AAR, CCA, 4th Armored Division. “4th Armd Div, Crossing of the Moselle Near Nancy, 12-22 Sep,” combat interviews, NARA, box 24092.
123. Buchanan, et al, 46.
124. AAR, CCA, 4th Armored Division.
125. Interview with Lt Marvin E. Evans, “4th Armd Div, Crossing of the Moselle Near Nancy, 12-22 Sep,” combat interviews, NARA, box 24092.
126. AAR, CCA, 4th Armored Division.
127. AAR, CCA, 4th Armored Division.
128. AAR, CCA, 4th Armored Division. Buchanan, et al, 46.
129. Von Kahlden, 22ff. Generalleutnant Wend Von Wietersheim, “The 11th Panzer Division in Southern France (15 August – 14 September 1944),” MS # A-880, National Archives, 1946, 2-3.
130. Generalleutnant Wend Von Wietersheim, “The Employment of the 11th Panzer Division in Lorraine,” MS # B-364, Historical Division, Headquarters United States Army, Europe, 10 January 1947. National Archives, 12. (Hereinafter “The Employment of the 11th Panzer Division in Lorraine”.)
131. Oliver, 11.
132. Von Wietersheim, “The Employment of the 11th Panzer Division in Lorraine,” 14-15.
133. Von Kahlden, 24. Von Wietersheim, “The Employment of the 11th Panzer Division in Lorraine,” 13.
134. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 241. AAR, 602d Tank Destroyer Battalion. Oliver, 12.
135. AAR, 813th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 29 September 1944.
136. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 242. Griess, 361-362.
137. Study of Organization, Equipment, and Tactical Employment of Tank Destroyer Units, 2. AG 322 x 475 OpCG, 29 September 1944.
138. McGrann, 65, 116.
139. The American Arsenal, 60. Mesko, 17. “90mm Firing Tests.” Memo from HQ, 703d Tank Destroyer Battalion to Commanding General, First Army. 15 December 1944.
140. McGrann, 55.
141. Gabel, 53. Gill, 74. AAR, 703d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
Chapter 8: The Battle for the Border
1. “Defense of the West Wall.” ETHINT-37. Historical Division, Headquarters United States Army, Europe. This is an interview with Major Herbert Büchs, aide to Generaloberst Alfred Jodl, 28 September 1945. National Archives.
2. Charles B. MacDonald, The Battle of the Bulge (London: Guild Publishing, 1984), 62.
3. Wilmot, 478-9. MacDonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, 31 ff. Griess, 355.
4. MacDonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign , 34-5.
5. AAR, 702d Tank Destroyer Battalion, October 1944.
6. History, 823d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
7. Macdonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, xi.
8. “Documentation of Siegfried Line,” memo in records of 803d Tank Destroyer Battalion, 12 October 1944.
9. AAR, 803d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
10. AARs, 803d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
11. Griess, 362. Stephen E. Ambrose, Citizen Soldiers (New York, NY: Touchstone, 1997), 153.
12. Macdonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, 263ff.
13. Rhineland, CMH Pub72-25 (Washington, DC: U.S. Army Center of Military History, not dated), 15. (Hereinafter Rhineland.)
14. History, AAR, summaries of medal citations, 823d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
15. Macdonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, 291-292.
16. “1st Inf Div, Battle of Aachen, 8-22 Oct 44,” combat interviews, NARA, box 24012.
17. “1st Inf Div, Battle of Aachen, 8-22 Oct 44.”
18. “1st Inf Div, Battle of Aachen, 8-22 Oct 44.” G-3 Report of Operations, 1st Infantry Division. MacDonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign , 310.
19. Combat Lessons Learned Number 6. (U.S. War Department, 1945), 18-19.
20. “1st Inf Div, Battle of Aachen, 8-22 Oct 44.” AAR, 634th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
21. “1st Inf Div, Battle of Aachen, 8-22 Oct 44.” Rhineland. 15.
22. AAR, 635th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
23. AAR, 821st Tank Destroyer Battalion, October 1944.
24. Ibid.
25. AAR, 773d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
26. Dunnagan, 81, 147.
27. Ibid., 147-148.
28. AARs, 645th and 636th Tank Destroyer battalions.
29. Commendation, from 183d Field Artillery Group to Commanding General, XII Corps Artillery, 29 October 1944.
30. S-3 Journal, 899th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
31. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion.
32. Macdonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, 381-389.
33. Clarke and Smith, 351, 361.
34. Ibid., 368ff. AAR, 813th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
35. Clarke and Smith, 371ff.
36. An Informal History of the 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 54. AAR, 813th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
37. AAR, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion. Josowitz, 36.
38. Sherman, 139.
39. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 373.
40. Ibid., 266.
41. AAR, 773d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
42. Allen, 136. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 410-412.
43. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 468.
44. MacDonald, The Battle of the Bulge, 64-65.
45. Eby, 32-33. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, 581.
46. Rhineland, 17. Bradley and Blair, 343.
47. Rhineland, 18-19.
48. Sparks, Victory TD, 47-49.
49. Rhineland, 21.
50. Macdonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, 497.
51. Rhineland, 20.
52. Macdonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, 530.
53. Von Senger und Etterlin, 200-201.
54. Houston, 310-313. Macdonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, 531.
55. Houston, 314-316. AAR, 702d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
56. History, AAR, 771st Tank Destroyer Battalion. Medal citations for Lt George F. Killmer Jr. and Sgt. Walter F. Nedza.
57. Houston, 314-316. AAR, 702d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
58. GNMAR 321, 19 November 1944.
59. MacDonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, 577.
60. Drawn from 614 Tank Destroyers WWII (no publisher listed), which describes the battle by quoting medal citations and commendations.
61. Wilmot, 621.
Chapter 9: The Battle of the Bulge
1. MacDonald, The Battle of the Bulge, 21ff.
2. Wilmot, 577.
3. Allen, 163, 165.
4. Griess, 371-372.
5. MacDonald, The Battle of the Bulge, 64-65.