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Newsgroups: soc.history.war.world-war-ii
From: "Rich" <RichT...@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:40:24 -0500
Local: Tues 6 Feb 2007 21:40
Subject: Re: Operating Tanks at Omaha first 6 hours
On Feb 6, 4:03 pm, "Dr.Colon.Osc...@gmail.com"
<Dr.Colon.Osc...@gmail.com> wrote: In terms of tanks actually landed at OMAHA, out of 62 Shermans in the > Is there any information that shines some light on the number of > tanks, that were operating at Omaha from H-hour till noon? (Including > those that were destroyed during). In several accounts both in books > and in my conversations with some "First Wavers", accounts of single > tanks operating on eastern part of Omaha, pop up. Anbody have any > leads or definitive information 741st Tank Battalion at least 54 were lost, with 29 DD tanks swamped, 2 M-4 75mm and 1 M-4 tank dozer lost when their LCT (A) was sunk. Of the 32 tanks that landed, 1 M-4 tank dozer was damaged, 7 M-4 75mm were knocked out by gunfire and mines, 5 M-4 75mm were tracked or abandoned in the surf, while the cause of loss for 9 others is unknown, so a total of 22. Out of 62 Shermans in the 743rd Tank Battalion, at least 22 were reported lost, all on shore and none at sea. So in the first case, 32 were "lost at sea" leaving 30 to fight on the beach, where another 22 were lost on land, exactly the same number lost on land by the other battalion. Furthermore, the 16th Infantry, supported by the 30 tanks of the 741st Tank Battalion, suffered about 971 casualties. The 116th Infantry, supported by the 62 tanks of the 743rd Tank Battalion, still suffered about 797 casualties. You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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