| Silurian | 07 Oct 2016 6:48 p.m. PST |
Hi Guys. I've read British, German, even Russian tank crew memoirs from WWII. I know of one US Pacific tanker memoir, but none from Africa, Italy or NW Europe. There must be some out there … any suggestions?
Thanks! |
| cabin4clw | 07 Oct 2016 7:19 p.m. PST |
Tank Driver is one book. There is a book that I have but can't find is written by a guy who's job was to go out and recover armor left on the field of battle. |
robert piepenbrink  | 07 Oct 2016 7:27 p.m. PST |
He's higher up than you'd want for some purposes, but try to find a copy of Robinet's Combat Commander. He commanded a tank regiment and later a combat command of 1st Armored Division in North Africa, and has a fair bit of low-level observations. |
| robert piepenbrink | 07 Oct 2016 7:33 p.m. PST |
John P. Irwin. Another River, Another Town. ETO. |
| jekinder6 | 07 Oct 2016 8:12 p.m. PST |
Second for "Combat Commander". Great anecdote about why the German's don't shoot at the artillery spotter planes. |
| Schogun | 08 Oct 2016 5:23 a.m. PST |
@robert & @jekinder -- I'm having no luck finding "Combat Commander". Can you provide any more info? Thanks. |
| jekinder6 | 08 Oct 2016 7:21 a.m. PST |
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| Onomarchos | 08 Oct 2016 9:32 a.m. PST |
Not a crewman, but it does have lots of good first had info is Belton Cooper's "Death Traps: The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II" He served as an ordnance officer with the forward elements of 3rd Armor and was responsible for coordinating the recovery and repair of damaged American tanks. link |
| Onomarchos | 08 Oct 2016 9:35 a.m. PST |
Oh, and Rick Atkinson's fantastic Liberation trilogy has some good first person perspectives. Mark
link |
| PeterH | 10 Oct 2016 8:03 a.m. PST |
second another river, another town
Also,"tanks for the memories" – hokey name, good read about US tankers in Europe in their own words, ground level. Not a memoir, but a series of interviews, bundled by topic, so in essence you get the collective memories of probably 10 tankers
link |
| Silurian | 10 Oct 2016 1:33 p.m. PST |
Thank you guys. I shall check these out. |
