The officers of some battalions, such as the 708th Amphibian Tank Battalion, wrote articles for professional journals that fleshed out their outfits’ histories. Some, such as the 743d Tank Battalion, left exhaustive records, while others left skimpy and uninformative files. The quality of the surviving records varies tremendously from battalion to battalion. Readers interested in a day-by-day account of the eighteen land tank battalions that fought in the Pacific-albeit with no coverage of the armored amphibians-should consult Gene Eric Salecker’s Rolling Thunder against the Rising Sun. It is impossible to provide a running account of each armored battalion it was a big war! To the extent possible, I have selected material that either illustrates experiences common to many battalions or highlights the more noteworthy experience of an individual unit or sector of the front. The book explores how they fought the war, as often as possible in the tankers’ own words. It is a portrait of those battalions as much as it is a history. This work tells the stories of the tank battalions that fought in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and the European theater, as well as the tank, amphibian tank, and amphibian tractor battalions-all manned by armored force tankers-that battled in the Pacific.
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