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Final battles of Patton's vanguard : the United States Army Fourth Armored Division, 1945-1946 /

By January 1945, Nazi Germany's defeat seemed inevitable yet much fighting remained. The shortest way home for American troops was towards Berlin. General George S. Patton's Third Army would carve its way into the German heartland, the Fourth Armored Division once again serving as his vang...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fox, Don M., 1958- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]
Subjects:
United States. > Army. > Armored Division, 4th.
World War, 1939-1945 > Regimental histories > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Western Front.
World War, 1939-1945 > Tank warfare.
Table of Contents:
  • The West Front
  • Goodbye Bastogne
  • Rest and Recuperation
  • To Hell and Back
  • The Armored Infantry-Again
  • Attack into Germany
  • The Drive to Bitburg and the Kyll River
  • The Drive to the Rhine
  • Between the Rhine and Moselle
  • From the Moselle to the Rhine
  • Jumping the Rhine
  • Task Force Baum
  • The Road to Hammelburg
  • The Only Mistake
  • Breakout from the Main River Bridgehead
  • Ohrdruf
  • Beyond the Restraining Line
  • Czechoslovakia
  • The Occupation.