Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-306) and index.
Contents:
Why not me? -- Smooth and Taffy -- The call to Knox -- Shiny gold bars -- A good tempo -- Organization day -- Big-time maneuvers -- The case for tanks -- Aggressors in the West -- Big gun, more steel -- Face-off -- Lieutenant Jack Roosevelt Robinson -- Patton's welcome -- The battle for Lorraine -- The ordeal of Company C -- A step closer to Germany -- Village by village -- The German counteroffensive -- Sergeant McBurney's war -- Bate's return -- Task force Rhine -- We lived through it.
Summary:
In The Black Panthers: A Story of Race, War, and Courage?the 761st Tank Battalion in World War II, historian Gina M. DiNicolo tells the full and unvarnished history of this important American fighting force.
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