“Tankers didn’t sleep unless there was nothing going on, and there was always something going on...” 

-- Captain David Redle,

Former Commander of "B" Company

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The 756th Tank Battalion

Algeria-French Morocco ~ Naples-Foggia

Rome-Arno ~ Southern France ~ Rhineland

  Ardennes-Alsace ~ Central Europe

World War II

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TAPS

 

It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to:

 

Denis Hannan

medic,

passed away on February

5th, 2010

 

Roy Collins

veteran of HQ Co.,

passed away on November 11th, 2009

 

 Marvin Kempf

 veteran of A Co.,

passed away on August 8th, 2009

 

Frank R. Cockerill, Jr.

passed away on

May 17th, 2009

Frank was a veteran of B Co.

 

All men are deeply missed...

 

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The 2010 756th Tank Battalion Association reunion will be held in September in the Lexington, Kentucky area.

 

Click HERE for more details.

 

 

An up-close account on how

the tankers of B Company /756th Tank Battalion and the GIs of the 3rd Battalion /15th Infantry Regiment fought together in 1944 Southern France!

 

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The 756th Tank Battalion was reorganized in 1949 as the 73rd Heavy Tank Battalion, re-designated in 1962 as the 73rd Armor Regiment, and then inactivated in 1997.   

 

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