The artillery, the rockets, the air strikes, all had been merciless and unceasing, the last two hours filled with the orchestral sounds of an Army stirring itself for the advance. The Allied front had been bathed in high explosives, rear positions carpeted with Katyusha ...
Soviet resistance on Routes 30 and 226 had been overcome, the legionnaires of the 1st RDM sweeping all before them. Olwsheim had proven a tough little nut, but thirty minutes of close-quarter fighting had reaped a good crop of prisoners, and driven the remaining enemy ou...
The trains had thundered eastwards and brought the whole of ‘Camerone’ to Rastatt, where men and machines debussed for the short journey to their holding area in and around Muggensturm and Waldprechtsweier, Germany. The journey through France had been uneventful, the str...
The reports written by Yarishlov and Ramsey held much the same information. Firstly that the American tank exercise had been an utter shambles. Both explained the reasons why, although Yarishlov’s expertise in tank combat made his submission more detailed in that regard. Secondly, that the Americ...