Oral history interview with Jack Browder, 1998 January 15.

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Oral history interview with Jack Browder, 1998 January 15.

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Interview with Jack Browder, Army veteran (741st Tank Battalion), concerning his experiences as an officer in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-war stateside training; forming and training the 741st Tank Battalion; amphibious training in England prior to the Normandy invasion; assignment as operations officer for the 741st; the fate of the DD tanks on D-Day; assignment as executive officer for the 741st; attachment of the 741st to the 2nd Infantry Division; combat in the hedgerow country of Normandy; comparisons and contrasts between the U. S. Sherman tanks and German Tiger and Panther tanks; tank-infantry coordination; troop replacement system; Saint Lò‚, July, 1944; Falaise Gap; liberation of Paris; Rhineland Campaign; Siegfried Line, September, 1944; Ardennes Offensive and Battle of the Bulge, December, 1944-January, 1945; liberation of German concentration camps; liberation of Pilsen, Czechoslovakia; relations between American and Soviet troops; postwar recruiting duty in Illinois, 1946-48.

71 leaves ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas. Oral History Collection.

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World War II European Theater Oral History Project.

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Marcello, Ronald E.

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Browder, Jack, 1914-

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United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...