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Brothers In Arms

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by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


  Miller, David. The Illustrated Directory of Tanks of the World: From World War I to the Present Day. Osceola, WI: MBI Publishing, 2000.

  Motley, Mary Penick, ed. The Invisible Soldier: The Experience of the Black Soldier, World War II. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1987.

  Parker, Danny S. Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Ardennes Offensive, 1944–1945. Pennsylvania: Combined Publishing, 1991. Reprint, New York: Da Capo Press, 2001.

  Potter, Lou, with William Miles and Nina Rosenblum. Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.

  Province, Charles M. Patton's Third Army: A Daily Combat Diary. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1992.

  Quarrie, Bruce. The Ardennes Offensive: US VII & VIII Corps and British XXX Corps: Central Sector. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2000.

  Rampersad, Arnold. Jackie Robinson: A Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

  Ritgen, Helmut. The Western Front 1944: Memoirs of a Panzer Lehr Officer, translated by Joseph Welsh. Winnipeg, Manitoba: J. J. Fedorowicz Publishing, 1995.

  Robinson, Jackie, as told to Alfred Duckett. I Never Had It Made. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1972.

  Russell, Frank M. The Saar: Battleground and Pawn. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1951.

  Terkel, Studs. The Good War: An Oral History of World War II. New York: Pantheon, 1984.

  Townshend, Charles, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

  Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

  Williams, David J. Hit Hard. New York: Bantam Books, 1983.

  Wilson, Joe W., Jr. The 761st “Black Panther” Tank Battalion in World War II. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1999.

  Zaloga, Steven J. M3 & M5 Stuart Light Tank 1940–45. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 1999.

  Zaloga, Steven J. Sherman Medium Tank 1942–45. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 1978.

  Military Maps

  U.S. Army in World War II Atlas: The European Theater. Minnetonka, MN: The National Historical Society, 1996.

  Periodicals

  Associated Press. “Overdue But Not Forgotten.” Dallas Morning News, April 28, 1996.

  Galloway, Joseph L. “Debt of Honor.” U.S. News & World Report, May 6, 1996, pp. 28–41.

  Holmes, Steven A. “Some Notable Old Soldiers Fight to Avoid Fading Away.” The New York Times, September 2, 2002.

  Jensen, Oscar. “A Memorable Visit to the ETO.” Yankee Doings: 26th Division Newsletter, Vol. LXXX, No. 4, December 1999.

  Sikes, David. “WWII Battalion Honored.” Killeen Daily Herald, August 23, 1996.

  Tygiel, Jules. “The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson.” American Heritage, August/September 1984, pp. 34–39. Reprinted in The 761st Tank Battalion & Allied Veterans Association of World War II, Celebrating their 37th Annual Reunion, August 28–September 1, 1985.

  Van Gelder, Lawrence. Paul Bates Obituary. The New York Times, February 25, 1995.

  Wilson, Dale E. “A Time to Live; A Time to Die: The Sad Saga of Staff Sergeant Ruben Rivers.” Negro History Bulletin: African Americans and World War II, 50th Anniversary of World War II Commemorative Issue, December 1993, pp. 51–55.

  Videos

  Lennon, Thomas, and Mark Zwonitzer. American Experience: Battle of the Bulge: The Deadliest Battle of World War II. Narrated by David McCullough. A Lennon Documentary Group Film, produced for American Experience. Boston: WGBH Educational Foundation, 1994, 2002.

  Lihani, Rob. Suicide Missions: Tank Crews. Produced by Rob Lihani. A&E Television Networks: The History Channel, 2000.

  Stahl, Norman. America's Black Warriors: Two Wars to Win. Produced by Mort Zimmerman. With closing comments by General Colin Powell, U.S. Army (Ret.). A&E Television Networks: The History Channel, 1998.

  Internet Sites of Interest

  “26th Infantry Division ‘Yankee Division.'” www.grunts.net; www.globalsecurity.org; www.military.com.

  “71st Infantry Division Official Web Page.” www.geocities.com

  “The Seventy-First Came to Gunskirchen Lager.” Produced by the 71st U.S. Infantry Division in May 1945, after their liberation of the Gunskirchen concentration camp in Austria. With foreword by Major General Willard G. Wyman. Reprinted at www.remember.org.

  “87th Infantry Division Association.” Contains numerous articles and wartime recollections written by members of the 87th “Golden Acorn” Division. www.87thinfantrydivision.com.

  “History of the 103rd Infantry Division.” www.grunts.net

  “TheTroubleshooters.com.” Website of the 702nd Tank Battalion of Patton's Third U.S. Army. Contains articles on tank equipment and performance, and recollections of unit veterans. www.thetroubleshooters.com.

  www.homeofheroes.com. Website featuring Congressional Medal of Honor citations.

  Acknowledgments

  The authors would like to thank the following friends and colleagues for their contributions to the realization of the book:

  Michael Hurd, Hanna Broda, Sloan Harris, Alan and Harriet Dresher, Matthew Greenfield, Craig McEwen, Roger Scholl, and Sarah Rainone.

  We would like to give special acknowledgment and thanks to Deborah Murphy.

  Index

  *The following items may be used as a guide to search for information in this eBook.

  Adams, Clifford

  Adamson, Capt. Garland “Doc”

  African American soldiers in American military, history

  “Buffalo soldiers”

  Allied leaders, meeting in Tehran

  Anderson, Alexander

  Anderson, Trezzvant

  Annunzio, Frank

  Ardennes. See Battle of the Bulge

  Armstrong, Emile

  Ashly, Thomas

  Austria

  761st Able Company

  Steyr

  Baker, 1st Lt. Vernon

  Ballard, Sgt. Moses

  Barbour, 1st Lt. Samuel (or Charles)

  Bates, Lt. Col. Paul L.

  postwar

  reads Articles of War to 761st

  return to 761st

  Saar Campaign and wounding, Nov. 8

  tank, “Taff,”

  Task Force Rhine

  Battle of the Bulge

  air support

  Bastogne

  casualties

  civilian casualties

  end of

  First Army in

  German forces

  German surrender demand and Gen. McAuliffe's famous reply

  January 3, Allied counterattack

  St. Hubert Hwy

  761st Able Company

  761st Baker Company

  761st Charlie Company

  761st Dog Company

  761st Gates command

  Seventh Army

  Third Army sent to

  Tillet

  weather

  Battle of Hurtgen Forest

  Bear, Capt. Gerald M.

  Belgium, battles and battle sites

  Amberloup

  Bastogne

  Bonnerue

  Gerimont

  Haies de Tillet Forest

  Hermee

  “High Ardennes”

  Houffalize

  Jenneville

  Moircy

  Nimbermont

  Offagne

  Pironpre

  Remagne

  Rondu

  St. Vith

  Schonberg

  Tillet

  Bond, Jessie

  Boone, Pfc. Irving

  Bradley, Gen. Omar

  Bragg, Pvt. Thomas

  Branch, Cpl. Buddie

  Brisbane, Thomas

  Briscoe, Robert

  Brooks, Charles

  Brown, Cpl. Fred

  Bruce, Lt. Thomas

  Bryant, Mose

  Burroughs, William R.

  Byrd, L. C.

  Campbell, Walter

  Camp Breckin
ridge, Texas

  Camp Claiborne, Louisiana

  Camp Clark, Missouri

  Camp Hood (Fort Hood), Texas

  German prisoners at, freedom greater than black servicemen

  monument and other memorials to 761st

  reunion at

  travel off base, racial problems and

  Camp Kilmer, New Jersey

  Camp Shanks, Orangeburg, New York

  Camp Siebert, Alabama

  Camp Upton, New York

  Camp Wheeler, Georgia

  Cardell, Daniel

  Carter, S. Sgt. Edward A.

  Carter, Jimmy

  Chapman, Carlton

  Chatmon, Earnest

  Christy, Walter

  Churchill, Winston

  Clark, Hollis

  Cochrane, S. Sgt. Frank

  Codman, Lt. Col. Charles R.

  Coleman, 1st Lt. Kenneth

  Collier, George

  Come Out Fighting

  Congressional Medal of Honor

  African American recipients

  fight for award to Ruben Rivers

  Conway, S. Sgt. Henry

  Conyers, John

  Cooper, Theodore

  Crecy, Warren “Iron Man”

  Battle of the Bulge

  death of Horatio Scott and

  in England

  in France

  postwar

  Saar Campaign

  in 761st Charlie Company

  in 761st Dog Company

  in 761st Service Company

  as tank commander

  Task Force Rhine

  valor of

  wife, Margaret

  Culin, Sgt. Curtis G.

  Culin, Maj. Gen. Frank

  Dade, Floyd

  France, yearly visits to

  in Germany

  postwar

  reenlistment

  Saar Campaign

  Dade, 2nd Lt. Moses

  Dawley, Brig. Gen. Ernest A.

  Devers, Lt. Gen. Jacob

  Devore, Willie

  Battle of the Bulge

  at Camp Hood

  death of

  deployment for ETO

  as driver

  in France

  in New York City

  Saar Campaign

  in 761st Headquarters Company

  Douglass, Frederick

  Dunn, Lane

  Eddy, Maj. Gen. Manton S.

  Edwards, Corp. James

  85th Infantry Division

  Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight D.

  England

  African-Americans

  21st British Army Group, drive into Germany and

  Wimborne

  English, Capt. Richard

  European Theater of Operations (ETO)

  African American units in

  Allied commanders, clashes between

  Allied commanders at Verdun

  Battle of the Bulge

  casualties

  dangerous optimism of Allies

  liberation of Paris

  logistical problems

  Germany, subduing of, plan for

  Normandy invasion (Operation Overlord)

  October, 1944, various operations

  Omaha Beach

  Operation Cobra

  Operation Grenade

  push for Germany, Montgomery and

  “Red Ball Express,” African American quartermaster regiment

  Saar Campaign

  Sherman tanks, casualties and problems with

  Task Force Rhine

  troopships for

  Yalta Conference

  Ewing, Roderick

  Fletcher, Autrey

  Fort Knox, Kentucky

  black officer training

  disparity in training for African Americans

  segregation at

  Fort Riley, Kansas

  442nd Regimental Combat Team, 100th Battalion (“Nisei” Japanese Americans)

  Fox, Lt. John R

  France, battles and battle sites

  Albestroff

  Benestroff

  Bezange-la-Petite

  Bidestroff

  Bosselhausen

  Bourgaltroff

  Château-Salins

  Dieuze

  Guebestroff

  Guebling

  Hill 253

  Honskirch

  Les Pieux, American camp at

  Maginot Line

  Marimont

  Metz

  Morville-les-Vic

  Munster

  Oermingen

  Rodalbe

  Saare-Union

  St. Nicholas-de-Port, bivouac at

  Sarreguemines

  Sarre-Union

  Saverne

  Torcheville

  Val-de-Bride

  Vic-sur-Seille

  Vittersbourg

  Woefling-les-Sarreguemines

  Wuisse

  Gary, 1st Lt. Harold

  Gates, Lt. Charles A. “Pop”

  African American Missouri National Guard Unit and

  Assault Gun Platoon

  Battle of the Bulge

  dinner in Bidestroff

  German invasion and

  Headquarters Company commander

  Patton and

  postwar

  Saar Campaign

  Saar Campaign, Nov. 22, attack on Honskirch

  Gay, Maj. Hobart R.

  Geist, Russell C.

  Germany, battles and battle sites

  Allied invasion

  Battle of Hurtgen Forest

  Bayreuth

  Berlin

  Birkenhardt

  Bobenthal

  Bollenborn

  civilians and American troops

  Coburg

  concentration camps and Holocaust

  Erlenbach

  Inn River, Austrian border

  Insheim

  Lambach

  Langenselbol

  Kipshoven

  Klingenmunster

  Kulmbach

  Nazi resistance to invading Allies

  Neuhaus

  Niederschlettenbach

  Regensburg

  Reisdorf

  Remagen

  Rhine River

  Rhine River crossed by Patton

  Saarbrucken

  Schwannenberg

  761st Able Company in

  761st Baker Company in

  761st Charlie Company in

  761st Dog Company in

  Siegfried Line

  Silz

  surrender

  Tiesendorf

  Third Army and 761st crosses into

  Trier

  Wels

  Zutzendorf

  Goering, Hermann

  Goines, George

  Graham, Ardis

  Gray, J. Glenn

  Greenwood, Frank

  Grow, Maj. Gen. Robert

  Hagerman, Pvt. Bart

  Hall, Elwood

  Hall, Felix

  Hall, Sgt. Jonathan

  Hammond, 1st Lt. Robert

  Harrison, Capt. Ivan H.

  Saar Campaign, Nov. 8–9

  Hastie, William

  Hill, Corp. Raleigh

  Hilliard, Ivory

  Hitler, Adolf

  Battle of the Bulge and

  refusal to surrender

  Rhine, defense of

  suicide

  HMS Esperance Bay

  Holland

  End

  Jebeek

  Mheer

  Montgomery in

  761st in

  761st Able Company

  761st Baker Company

  761st Charlie Company

  761st Dog Company

  Huffman, 1st Lt. Maxwell

  Hunt, Lt. Col. Hollis

  Italy

  Allied advance in

  92nd Infantry Division

  Jackson, Austin

  James, Pfc. Willy F. Jr.

  James, Sgt. Walter

  Jennison, Sgt
. John

  Jenson, Oscar

  Johnson, Lt. Jay E.

  Johnson, Sgt. Robert

  Jones, James

  Jordan, James

  Kahoe, 1st Lt. Joseph

  Kilburn, Maj. Gen. Charles

  King, Sgt. Roy

  Kingsley, 1st Lt. Harold

  Kitt, Sgt. William

  Koch, Oscar

  Latimer, Philip

  Latimore, Sgt. Ervin

  Lear, Lt. Gen. Benjamin

  Lewis, Gunner Walter

  Lofton, Willie

  Long, Capt. John

  Louis, Joe

  Luxembourg, 761st in

  Lyons, Lt. Col.

  MacArthur, Gen. Douglas

  Mann, Claude

  Marshall, Gen. George

  McAuliffe, Gen.Anthony

  McBurney, William

  Battle of the Bulge

  at Camp Claiborne

  at Camp Hood

  at Camp Upton

  Channel crossing

  concentration camp entered

  deployment for ET

  in England

  at Fort Knox

  in France, preparing for battle

  German invasion and

  as gunner

  in Holland

  postwar

  racial incident, Alexandria and

  return to U.S.

  Saar Campaign

  in 761st Headquarters Company

  tank, “Taffy”

  Task Force Rhine

  trench foo

  McHenry, Capt. Irvin

  McIntyre, Harold

  McNair, Lt. Gen. Leslie

  McNeil, John

  McNeil, Preston

  Battle of the Bulge

  at Camp Claiborne

  at Camp Hood

  at Camp Upton

  Channel crossing

  deployment for ETO

  in England

  at Fort Knox

  in France

  German invasion and

  in Holland

  postwar

  racial discrimination, Texas

  racial incident, Alexandria and

  return to U.S.

  Saar Campaign

  in 761st Dog Company

  in 761st Service Company

  as tank commander

  Miley, Maj. Gen. William

  “Million-dollar wound”

  Montgomery, Field Marshal Bernard

  Mucklerath, Pvt. Ben

  Murphy, Sgt.

  Navarre, Sgt. Christopher

  Nelson, S. Sgt. James

  Nimitz, Adm. Chester

  969th Field Artillery, African American battalion

  Osby, Dennis

  Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO)

  African American units in

  Parks, Isaiah

  Patton, Gen. George S.

  addresses 761st

  artillery preparation to “soften” enemy lines

  assault on Honskirch and

  Battle of the Bulge

 

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