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	History of the 661st Tank Destroyer Battalion
		It was on the 17th of April 1943 that the 13th newly activated tank destroyer Battalion – the 661st Tank Destroyer Battalion – was organized at Camp Bowie, Texas.
		As the assault of the city proper entered its final stages, elements of the 661st were engaged in striking to the heart of the beleaguered metropolis.
		The Battalion as a whole fought its most impressive engagement at Leipzig, and has reason to be proud of its efforts in the taking of this city, historically famed for its resistance in the Napoleonic battles of the 18th century.
	www.69th-infantry-division.com /histories/661.html (1145 words)

	M-36 TANK DESTROYER
		Tank Destroyers were specialized units designed to engage and destroy enemy armor, opening the way for Allied tanks to exploit the gaps.
		During WW II, tanks did not have sufficient firepower for this task leading to the concept of a separate tank destroyer platform.
		The M-36B1 was built on the chassis of the M-4A3 Sherman tank with an M3 90mm gun in an M4 mount in the M36 turret, with an elevation range of 30 degrees and 360 degree traverse.
	www.olive-drab.com /idphoto/id_photos_m36td.php (336 words)

	M-10 TANK DESTROYER
		The M-10 was built on the chassis of the M-4 Sherman tank with an M7 3 in.
		The M10A1 Tank Destroyer was a British modification of some of their late-model M10s, equipped with a heavier gun, the Mark 5 17-pounder.
		This tank destroyer was designated the Achilles IIC by the British and was used during the later months of World War II in Europe.
	www.olive-drab.com /idphoto/id_photos_m10td.php (356 words)

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		The role of a tank destroyer is to "SEEK, STRIKE AND DESTROY enemy tanks in defensive and offensive action." That is the role of the M1A1 and M1A2.
		A tank destroyer can cover all sorts of things but in general if it has sufficient armour to slug it out with a tank, and has a gun system capable of destroying a tank in a fully rotating turret, it's a tank.
		Systems like the M551 Sheridan are either a 'light tank' or a TD if employed as such as the gun itself can't challenge a tank, but the missile could (although not well) and it didn't have the armour for a stand up fight.
	www.strategypage.com /militaryforums/2-1036.aspx (1498 words)

	tank destroyer,
		in offensives to destroy enemy armour and in infantry attacks as assault guns.
		used to augment the firepower of tank battalions and were employed as roving artillery batteries.
		Nashorn ("Rhinoceros") tank destroyer, for instance, was built on the Pz.
	library.thinkquest.org /CR0215634/tankdestroyer.htm (747 words)

	History of TD Forces
		Tank Destroyer units were fast, hard hitting units and were among the most heavily armed and mechanized units in the Army.
		Tank Destroyers were extremely vulnerable due to their open topped turrets which provided no crew protection from snipers or air burst artillery.
		Nevertheless, Tank Destroyer units with their "Seek, Strike, Destroy" motto became powerful formations strong in firepower and mobility, and the TD men were renowned for their courage and tenacity.
	www.818tdbn.org /html/history_of_td_forces.html (709 words)

	The Russian Battlefield - SU-100 Tank Destroyer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It was needed to to increase the firepower of the Soviet tanks and antitank guns.
		After the line-drawings of the S-34 gun had been obtained, it became clear that this weapon could not be mounted on the tank destroyer, due to the width of the gun which made an unacceptable limitation on traverse and did not allow room for the driver's hatch on the front of the hull.
		A couple of SU-100 tank destroyers of the 384th Guards Heavy Assault Regiment of the 7th Guard Tank Corps enters Landsberg, Silesia during the Sandomierz-Silesia offensive by the 1st Ukrainian Front on January 21, 1945.
	www.battlefield.ru /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=57&Itemid=50&lang=en (1500 words)

	History Channel: Self propelled vs. towed tank destroyer ...
		Since future tank destroyer battalions would be numbered in the 600, 700 and 800 series, the 93rd, 94th, and 99th Infantry Anti-tank Battalions became the 893rd, 894th, 899th Tank Destroyer Battalions; and the 101st through the 105th Infantry Anti-tank Battalions became the 801st through 805th Tank Destroyer Battalions.
		The new Tank Destroyer battalions were activated with this structure in mind, and renumbered 601 through 609 if based on the same posts as the 1st through 9th Divisions of the Regular Army.
		Our tank destroyer battalions, organized only a few months previous, with no historical prototype, equipped with an improvised weapon - an almost unarmored half-track mounting an entirely inadequate 75-mm gun - had been taught during their training that it was their duty to seek out and destroy enemy tanks.
	boards.historychannel.com /thread.jspa?threadID=800003294&messageID=800050471 (4723 words)

	Tank Destroyers History
		The mission to destroy enemy tanks was left to anti-tank units, the Field Artillery and the U.S. Army Air Corp. The M4 Sherman, the basic tank battalion weapon in 1943-45 was armed with the short-barreled 75MM field gun.
		The main argument was that the Tank Destroyer Force had not accomplished the mission of massing to defeat the German panzers, except at the Battle of El Guettar, Tunisia when the 899th TD Bn joined the 601St TD Bn and stopped Gen Rommel’s 10th Panzer Division.
		A second plaque on the Tank Destroyer Forces Monument and the 899th TD Bn Monument were dedicated at a joint ceremony 9 Sept 1995.
	www.tankdestroyersociety.com /tank_destroyers_history.htm (1182 words)

	WWII Chapter 24, Tanks for the Memories
		Up the other bank, almost to the top of the hill, was a German tiger tank shooting its 88 at anything that moved on our side of the hill, and our powers that be decided that we had to knock it out.
		So as soon as we got behind the destroyer, I ran out and told the destroyer’s tank commander what was probably going to be coming down the road, so he could get a good shot at it.
		And of course the tank destroyer didn’t go after him because he couldn’t afford to take a hit, he would lose.
	www.tankbooks.com /tanksfor/chap24.htm (1056 words)

	TANK DESTROYERS
		The main focus of the tank destroyer was in a defensive role, where it could utilize it's heavy firepower to defend against attacking tanks.
		They tended to be less mobile than tanks, had no turrets, and in fact often had open tops so their gun crews were not provided overhead protection from shrapnel.
		The ultimate evolution of the tank destroyer was the JgPz VIB (PanzerJager VI Ausf B), built on the hull of the massive King Tiger.
	history.sandiego.edu /gen/st/~cshimp/tankdestroyers.htm (443 words)

	Combat Lessons: Tank Destroyer Tips
		From the Commanding Officer of a Tank Destroyer Battalion, FRANCE: "Tank destroyer crews should not respond to enemy small-arms fire at night.
		At dawn, seven enemy tanks were observed in the area from which the firings had been coming.
		When hostile tanks were heard approaching, the machine 'guns fired tracers until ricochets indicated that a tank was being hit.
	efour4ever.com /td_tips.htm (413 words)

	M10 Tank Destroyer
		During this battle, he climbed aboard a burning M10 "Wolverine" Tank Destroyer which was abandoned in a nearby ditch and began firing a.50 caliber machine gun at the enemy.
		The mission of the Tank Destroyers was to engage and destroy enemy armor permitting Allied tanks to concentrate on exploitation of break throughs and the destruction of enemy rear areas.
		This particular machine gun is found on a Sherman Tank and is nearly identical to the one that Audie Murphy would have used during the Battle of the Colmar Pocket.
	www.audiemurphy.com /m10.htm (544 words)

	703rd Tank Destroyer Battalion - WWII - 703d
		Tank destroyers crouched in the gloom, low-slung silhouettes with impossibly long guns jutting from their angular turrets.
		Imprinted on their souls were the night marches and the slashing, triple-pronged attacks where tank and tank destroyer slugged it out at negligible range.
		Because the tank destroyer men were all older than the little Lieutenant, they called him "Junior." After he led them in action they changed the name; it became "Little Blood and Guts." Ferchaud challenged a Mark-V at Fromental and lost a TD in the action.
	www.3ad.com /history/wwll/feature.pages/tank.destroyers.htm (2425 words)

	Iron Armory "War Tiger" Tank Destroyer
		One of the testing exercises, the tank destroyer got involved in a live engagement against a Coalition "Seek and Destroy" unit which the testing team did not know was operating in the area.
		The tank destroyer also has two rapid fire pulse laser cannons with one controlled by the commander next to the top mounted Vulcan cannon and one is mounted coaxial with the 120 mm rail gun.
		One gun is controlled by the tank destroyer's commander and the other is controlled by the main gunner and is coaxial to the 120 mm high velocity rail gun.
	www.kitsune.addr.com /Rifts/Rifts-Earth-Vehicles/IA_MTK-15_War_Tiger.htm (2890 words)

	The Ontos Anti-Tank Vehicle
		The tank remained the favored anti-tank weapon for the Marines in the immediate postwar period.
		The essential role of tanks and M50s in the fighting is illustrated by the fact that Marines had to hold up their advance from time to time for lack of 90mm tank and 106mm Ontos ammunition.
		Not only good at destroying structures, Ontos were able to provide a "smoke screen" for infantry attacks: when phosphorus rounds were unavailable, "beehive" rounds (explosive shells filled with thousands of small darts) fired into masonry structures created a dust cloud that screened infantry movement.
	www.library.vanderbilt.edu /central/brush/Ontos.htm (4241 words)

	Tank Destroyers
		The tank destroyer force of World War Two was a one-time stop gap measure.
		The role of artillery was the destruction of enemy tanks and not that of the main battle tank.
		The first Tank Destroyer Battalions entered combat in the North African campaign in November 1942 equipped with the M3 Half-track mounted with an exposed 75mm gun.
	efour4ever.com /tank_destroyer.htm (917 words)

	Equipment Matchups: Destroyer/Frigate (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Together with her sister ship, the Hangzhou is the largest surface combatant in the PLAN inventory, and the most powerful ship capable of conducting operations on the surface, in the air, and below surface, while providing credible self-defense at the same time.
		The Luhu class destroyer is the most advanced indigenously designed ship in the PLAN, utilizing the GM LM2500 engines, although later models should incorporate a powerplant of Russian design.
		With the arrival of the second-generation fleet, these aging destroyers are likely to be retired soon, with a few preserved as training vessels.
	www.emeraldesigns.com /matchup/destroyer.htm (1179 words)

	737th Tank Battalion
		General Patton sent a letter on 17 Nov 45 to the officers and men of the 5th Infantry Division, to whom we were attached.
		"737" was the first tank battalion of the Third Army to cross the Moselle and Meurthe Rivers, the first armored unit in XII Corps to touch German soil, and the first armored unit of the Third Army to cross the Rhine River and enter Frankfurt.
		A Czech-American citizen, Pfc Charles Havlat of the 803rd Tank Destroyer Battalion, was killed when elements of the 11th Panzer Division ambushed his reconnaissance platoon 4 km northeast of the town.
	www.737thtankbattalion.org (709 words)

	Tanks for the Memories - Tank Museum - Tank Destroyer- Militaria
		The Tank Destroyer forces were abandoned in the fall of 1945 due to the M26 Pershing with its 90mm gun that burst into combat action.
		The Tank Destroyer emblem is painted on the belt.
		This is a scene from Vietnam with the Scorpion Tank Destroyer overturned and left for scrap.
	www.aaftankmuseum.com /Militaria.htm (332 words)

	Combat Lessons: Tank Destroyer Tips
		From the Commanding Officer of a Tank Destroyer Battalion, FRANCE: "Tank destroyer crews should not respond to enemy small-arms fire at night.
		When hostile tanks were heard approaching, the machine 'guns fired tracers until ricochets indicated that a tank was being hit.
		The Commanding Officer of the 773d Tank Destroyer Battalion, FRANCE, suggests an effective method of enabling M10 Tank Destroyers to negotiate winter roads, icy hills, and slippery slopes: "We cut seven V-shaped notches in the standard-type grousers.
	www.efour4ever.com /td_tips.htm (413 words)

	Rumanian Marder: Skoda R2 TACAM Tank Destroyer
		This type of tank, still used by the Germans in quantity during the French campaign, was of very limited value in Russia due to its light construction and problems with operating it in cold weather.
		As the conclusions for supplementing the armour and changing the main gun were not favourable, a concept was born of rebuilding the remaining R-2 tanks to tank destroyers.
		It was assessed that such hybrids would be more valuable in the battlefield that the tanks they were intended to replace, and the project was given a green light.
	www.ipmsstockholm.org /magazine/2003/06/stuff_eng_arreborn_tacam.htm (708 words)

	B1 Centauro tank destroyer
		Because of their characteristics, these tanks have been used to escort motor convoys, for wide area control and for road patrols, and have proven rapid intervention capability in unforeseen crises.
		In order to have a troop carrier with mobility and protection specifications similar to those of the Centauro tank, development has begun on a family of medium tanks whose main characteristic is a high degree of interoperability with other tanks.
		This will carry 7 fully equipped men in addition to the tank commander and the pilot and may be armed with a range of equipment such as a 12.7 mm machine gun and a 25 or 60 mm cannon, plus two missile launchers.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/land/row/centauro.htm (356 words)

	Military Channel :: Reviews :: Books
		The Army's answer was to create a large force of tank destroyers (TDs) — essentially fast, hard-hitting, lightly armored vehicles that would swarm over the flanks and rear of the German leviathans.
		It was the United States on the attack, using poorly armed tanks and lightly armored tank destroyers (TDs didn't even have armored roofs — a definite downside during a mortar barrage).
		The end result was that tank destroyers were used like tanks in toe-to-toe combat that they were never designed for.
	military.discovery.com /randr/reviews/books/tankkillers.html (569 words)

	776th Tank Destroyer Battalion Combat History
		The 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion was activated at Fort Lewis, Washington, on 20 December 1941.
		Fortunately for the soldiers of the Battalion, in November 1942, the M-10 Tank Destroyer was issued to the 776th to replace the primitive and obsolescent weapons with which they had previously trained.
		Two destroyers were sited about 2,000 yards from one of Simserhof’s blocs, and were used as 90mm “sharpshooters” tasked with the mission of destroying the enemy ensconced in the impenetrably thick, steel-reinforced concrete fortifications by firing 90mm rounds through the narrow firing and observation apertures.
	www.100thww2.org /support/776combat.html (1881 words)

	tank destroyer definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
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		antitank vehicle: an armored military vehicle or aircraft mounted with antitank guns and designed to destroy tanks
	encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861718314/tank_destroyer.html (81 words)

	628 Tank Destroyer Battalion (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The artillery fire was such as to confine tank crews to their tanks for hours at a time and air bursts and shrapnel caused many casualties to the men in the open M-36 turrets.
		Moser, Tank Destroyer Gun Commander, permitted the leading enemy vehicles to come up to 25 yards of his position before opening fire and then in quick succession knocked out the first two tanks at almost point blank range, both of which were later identified as Mark V's.
		In addition to these tanks, the Battalion also received credit for destroying one 88 mm towed gun, two armored vehicles, one half-track, one machine gun nest, one bazooka and an OP in a stonehouse; inflicted approximately 75 casualties of which 54 were known dead, and captured 41 prisoners of war.
	www.5ad.org /units/628td.html (10110 words)

	Saving Private Ryan: Sav m/43
		The Stormartillerivgan m/43 assault gun was built by Scania-Vabis and was based on the chassis of the Panzerkampfwagen 38(t) tank, the same chassis used for the Marder III tank destroyer.
		The other tank destroyer (Sav m/43) was destroyed by a bazooka fired by Technical Sergeant Mike Horvath of the 2nd Ranger Battalion.
		Private Jackson identifies the tank destroyers that participate in the attack on Ramelle as "Panzers," which is the German word for "armor." Either Jackson was snoozing during German vehicle recognition classes, or he couldn't quite tell that they were tank destroyers (of two different kinds) so he opted to call them by a generic name.
	www.sproe.com /s/sav-m43.html (442 words)

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