American Knights: The Untold Story of the Men of the Legendary 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion

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Victor Failmezger

American Knights

The Untold Story of the Men of the Legendary 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion

Victor Failmezger

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Osprey Publishing
01 June 2018

True war & combat stories; Second World War; Land forces & warfare

An exhilarating combat history of the 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion, the very first pure Tank Destroyer force.

As the war began to swing in favour of the Allies, it became clear that no final defeat of the Third Reich would be possible until the armoured monsters of the Panzerwaffe were defeated. But who would, or even could, take on the mighty Tigers and Panthers, just a handful of which could stop entire formations in their tracks?

The answer lay with the formation of a new type of unit, the Tank Destroyer Battalion. This is the story of the men and machines that made up the very first Tank Destroyer Battalion, the 601st, from their unique training and formation, to the final, desperate battles in the heart of Nazi Germany.

Packed with rare material, letters, diaries and previously unpublished photographs, and now available in paperback, this is an intense and intimate chronicle of the men who fought the Panzers in an astonishing 10 campaigns and 546 days of lethal combat.

By: Victor Failmezger
Imprint: Osprey Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
Weight: 422g
ISBN: 9781472824875
ISBN 10: 1472824873
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 01 June 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Foreword Prologue Seek, Strike and Destroy North Africa Vindication in North Africa Italian mud! Stalemate at Cassino Anzio “Easy at first but tough as hell now” Push Them Back into the Sea World War One All Over Again Breakout for Rome Here We Go Again – Training for the Forgotten D-Day France isn’t Italy Conquerors of the Vosges Alsace The Other Battle of the Bulge Germany at Last It Finally Ends Epilogue Appendixes Bibliography

Victor 'Tory' Failmezger is a retired US Naval Officer and nephew of Lieutenant Thomas Peter Welch of the 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion, the discovery of whose wartime letters inspired this book. In the early 1970s Commander Failmezger was stationed at NATO in Naples, Italy and lived in an apartment overlooking the Bay of Pozzuoli where the 601st conducted practice landings for both the Anzio and Southern France landings. In the early 1980s he served as the Assistant Naval Attaché in Rome, Italy and was a participant in the celebration marking the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Rome. A later tour found him as the Director of the US Navy Science and Technology Group, Europe in Munich, Germany. He is a graduate of the US Foreign Service Institute (Italian) and the Defense Language Institute (German). After retirement he worked as a consultant in the private sector and for the US Department of Energy and NASA. His historical works include Roman Bronze Coins from Paganism to Christianity and Paget, Discoverer of Hades. He lives in Virginia.