Pershing's Tankers : Personal Accounts of the AEF Tank Corps in World War I / edited by Lawrence M. Kaplan ; foreword by Dale E. Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilson, Dale, 1951- writer of foreword.

Kaplan, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Martin), 1954- editor.

Series:

AUSA book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Army. Tank Corps--History.

World War, 1914-1918--Europe--Tank warfare.

World War, 1914-1918--Europe--Personal narratives, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2018]

Summary:

"In Pershing's Tankers, Lawrence M. Kaplan compiles 47 official personal experience reports, 27 unofficial accounts, and six letters written by George Patton to his family to provide insight into the human dimension of US tank operations in World War I. These narratives vary in size, scope and depth, and cover a range of topics, including the organizing, training, combat operations, and equipping of the Tank Corps. Kaplan offers accounts from a broad cross-section of men from senior leaders down to the platoon level"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Editor's Introduction

I. Historical Summary of US Army Tank Corps Operations

II. Tank Corps Senior Leader Commentary

Colonel Ira C. Welborn, Report of the Director of the Tank Corps

Brigadier General Samuel D. Rockenbach, Congressional Testimony

Brigadier General Samuel D. Rockenbach, Infantry Journal Article

III. Official Tank Corps Personal-Experience Reports

302d Tank Center

Colonel George S. Patton Jr., Commander, 304th Tank Brigade

Second Lieutenant John G. Heming, Headquarters (HQ), 302d Tank Center

Private First Class Joseph T. Angelo, HQ, 302d Tank Center

First Lieutenant Paul S. Edwards, HQ, 302d Tank Center

Captain Maurice H. Knowles, Reconnaissance Officer (RO), HQ, 302d Tank Center

First Lieutenant Donald C. Wilson, Salvage and Repair Company, 302d Tank Center

Captain Elgin E. Braine, HQ, 302d Tank Center

326th/344th Tank Battalion

Major Sereno E. Brett, Commander, 344th Tank Battalion

Second Lieutenant Donald M. Taylor, HQ, 344th Tank Battalion

First Lieutenant Julian K. Morrison, Company A, 344th Tank Battalion

First Lieutenant Leslie H. Buckler, Company A, 344th Tank Battalion

First Lieutenant Gordon M. Grant, Company A, 344th Tank Battalion

First Lieutenant Raymond P. Pennoyer, Company A, 344th Tank Battalion

Captain Newell P. Weed, Company B, 344th Tank Battalion

Captain Harry G. Borland, RO, Company B, 344th Tank Battalion

First Lieutenant David M. Bowes, Company B, 344th Tank Battalion

Second Lieutenant Stephen L. Conrey, Company B, 344th Tank Battalion

Second Lieutenant Donald M. Call, Company B, 344th Tank Battalion

First Lieutenant Henry C. Jennings, Company C, 344th Tank Battalion

First Lieutenant Edwin A. McCluer, Company C, 344th Tank Battalion.

First Lieutenant Loyall F. Sewall, Company C, 344th Tank Battalion

Second Lieutenant Harlow A. Wood, Company C, 344th Tank Battalion

Second Lieutenant Arthur Snyder, Company C, 344th Tank Battalion

Second Lieutenant George B. Heilner, RO, 344th Tank Battalion

327th/345th Tank Battalion

First Lieutenant William C. Louisell, HQ, 345th Tank Battalion

First Lieutenant Theodore J. Sledge, HQ, 345th Tank Battalion

Second Lieutenant William A. Dietz, Company A, 345th Tank Battalion

Second Lieutenant Lester W. Atwood, Company A, 345th Tank Battalion

Captain Ernest A. Higgins, Company C, 345th Tank Battalion

First Lieutenant Harry E. Gibbs, Company C, 345th Tank Battalion

First Lieutenant Harvey L. Harris, Company C, 345th Tank Battalion

Second Lieutenant Harry M. Mayne, Company C, 345th Tank Battalion

Second Lieutenant Harold H. Neff, Company B, 330th Tank Battalion

301st Tank Battalion

Captain Franklin V. Tenkonchy, HQ, 305th Tank Brigade

Major Roger B. Harrison, Commander, 301st Tank Battalion

First Lieutenant Thomas N. Miller, Company A, 301st Tank Battalion

Second Lieutenant Hugh S. Taylor, Company A, 301st Tank Battalion

Second Lieutenant Kenneth P. Watts, Company A, 301st Tank Battalion

Second Lieutenant Roland T. Adams, Company A, 301st Tank Battalion

Captain Carleton Reynell, Company B, 301st Tank Battalion

Second Lieutenant Roy M. Lester, Company B, 301st Tank Battalion

Second Lieutenant David E. Heaphy, Company B, 301st Tank Battalion

Second Lieutenant Claude E. Gans, Company B, 301st Tank Battalion

Second Lieutenant Paul S. Haimbaugh, Company B, 301st Tank Battalion

Captain Ralph de P. Clarke, Company C, 301st Tank Battalion

Second Lieutenant Harry M. Woods, RO, Company C, 301st Tank Battalion

Second Lieutenant John A. Logan, Company C, 301st Tank Battalion.

Second Lieutenant R. E. Hughes, 301st Tank Battalion

IV. Unofficial Personal Accounts

George S. Patton Jr., Personal Correspondence

George S. Patton Jr., letter to his wife, Beatrice, June 13, 1918

George S. Patton Jr., letter to his wife, Beatrice, September 16, 1918

George S. Patton Jr., letter to his wife, Beatrice, September 19, 1918

George S. Patton Jr., letter to his father, September 20, 1918

George S. Patton Jr., letter to his wife, Beatrice, September 26, 1918

George S. Patton Jr., letter to his wife, Beatrice, September 28, 1918

"New Jersey Boy Bravest Man in American Army" [Private First Class Joseph T. Angelo-Headquarters, 302d Tank Center]

344th Tank Battalion

Excerpt from "Only One of Us Can Get Out-And Out You Go" [Sergeant Virgil L. Morgan, Company A, 344th Tank Battalion, letter to John A. Roberts, the father of Corporal Harold W. Roberts, Company A, 344th Tank Battalion]

"Many Times over the Top in Tanks" [Corporal James O. Chambers, Company A, 344th Tank Battalion, letter to William S. Livengood]

"Hot Cakes, Hot Shot and a Hot Old Time Chasing the Huns out of Argonne Forest" [Corporal James O. Chambers, Company A, 344th Tank Battalion, letter to William S. Livengood]

"A Tanker's Experience in Clearing Hun Army out of Argonne Forest" [Corporal James O. Chambers, Company A, 344th Tank Battalion, letter to William S. Livengood]

"Plunging Onward toward Victory" [Corporal James O. Chambers, Company A, 344th Tank Battalion, letter to William S. Livengood]

"A Hero of the Tanks" [Lieutenant John W. Castles Jr., Company B, 344th Tank Battalion, letter to his mother, Mrs. John W. Castles, New York City]

"Lieut. Arthur Snyder Aims to Make Army Life Career" [Lieutenant Arthur Snyder, Company C, 344th Tank Battalion].

Arthur Snyder, "The Five of Hearts at Exermont" [Lieutenant Arthur Snyder, Company C, 344th Tank Battalion]

"Steering a Baby Tank" [Private Alfred Truitt, Company C, 344th Battalion]

"U.S. Tank Corps Did Good Work in Every Big Fight" [344th Tank Battalion]

345th Tank Battalion

"Brave under Fire: Lieutenant Guy R. Chamberlin Never Flinched in Face of Danger" [Lieutenant Arthur N. Chamberlin about Lieutenant Guy R. Chamberlin, HQ, 345th Tank Battalion]

Light Tank Battalions

C. H. Claudy, "Story of the Tank Man" [Unnamed soldier from a light tank battalion]

"Life in Tank Corps Not for Mollycoddles but It Has Many Attractions, Nevertheless: Sergt. Joseph A. W. Appleby and His Pet, Ermentrude" [Sergeant Joseph A. W. Appleby, unnamed light tank battalion]

"Riding a Tank into Mouths of Machine Guns Is Real Sport" [Second Lieutenant Paul S. Haimbaugh, Company B, 301st Tank Battalion]

"Decorated Vet Recalls Tank Battles on Hindenburg Line More Than Half Century Ago" [Sergeant Carl E. Rosenhagen, Company C, 301st Tank Battalion]

"Rosenhagen, Dunning Won Decorations from British in Field for Tank Exploits" [Sergeant Carl E. Rosenhagen, Company C, 301st Tank Battalion]

The National in the World War [First Lieutenant William M. Rosborough, Company C, 301st Tank Battalion]

"8 Vessels Bring in 12,000 U.S. Troops" [Lieutenant Earle B. Dunning, Company C, 301st Tank Battalion]

"Tomcat of the Tanks Wins 3 War Crosses" [Lieutenant Earle B. Dunning, Company C, 301st Tank Battalion, letter to his mother]

"American Heavies in France" [301st Tank Battalion]

"Tank Corps Men Suffered Heavily from Artillery" [Private Frank Halvey, 301st Tank Battalion]

H. J. Buxton, "Daredevils of War" [Sergeant Hugh J. Follette, 301st Tank Battalion]

V. Unofficial Tank Corps Operational Summaries.

"Tanks Stood Gaff from Belgium to Argonne Battle" [301st, 344th, and 345th Tank Battalions]

Major General John F. O'Ryan, The Story of the 27th Division [301st Tank Battalion] 247

Appendix A: Description of the Mark IV tank

Description of British Mark V through Mark IX Series Tanks

Appendix B: Tank Corps Organization Chart

Appendix C: Tank Corps Organization, July-November 1918

Appendix D: The St. Mihiel Offensive

Appendix E: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive

Appendix F: The 27th and 30th Infantry Divisions in the Somme Offensive, September 29, 1918

Appendix G: The 27th and 30th Infantry Divisions in the Somme Offensive, October 6-21, 1918

Appendix H: The British advance in the Somme Offensive by October 23, 1918

Appendix I: Chart, "United States' Tank Program in Progress Just Before War Ended"

Notes

Index

Illustrations.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813176055

0813176050

9780813176062

0813176069

OCLC:

1046677090