The unit reached the town at about 9:30 am and although it was subjected to enemy artillery fire, the command passed through it and continued slightly to the southeast. Passing through Courson the column continued toward Saint-Sever-Calvados. The remainder of his command was in close support, with the 110th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division, advancing on the right.
With the start time 5:00 am, Disney’s command was led by Company F, 67th Armored Regiment and the 3rd Battalion 41st Armored Infantry. Orders for the following day, Friday, August 4, called for Disney’s command to enter Courson, move southeast through Saint-Sever-Calvados and onto a major road leading to Vire, its ultimate objective being Champ-du-Bolt. Saint-Sever-Calvados: German Panthers in the Waiting An Illinoisan by birth, he would be awarded the Silver Star for action on Jas part of a military career that spanned more than half of his 44 years. Roberts, a West Point graduate, class of 1920, was an innovative and aggressive artilleryman. Roberts, Jr., 2nd Armored Division’s Artillery commanding officer (CO). An adjunct to the column was Colonel Thomas A. Artillery and engineers, as well as a platoon of the 702nd Tank Destroyer Battalion and a medical detachment, were in support.
The Courson column comprised the 2nd Battalion (the 67th Armored Regiment, Companies B, E, and F) and the 3rd Battalion (the 41st Armored Infantry Regiment), commanded by Lt. He had received his colonelcy just before the landing of the 2nd Armored Division in Normandy, and now found himself at Courson. Paul Disney, White’s junior, had a good combat record, which brought him the Silver and Bronze Stars with clusters, as well as the Purple Heart.
Appointed commander of the 67th Armored Regiment in June 1942, he would be succeeded by Disney after assuming command of CCB on April 5, 1943. White, a graduate of Norwich University, had been associated with mechanized cavalry since the early 1930s. Capable And Experienced Military Menīoth Disney and White were seasoned commanders. Although Disney’s command had, at the outset of the campaign, been designated the left column, the vagaries of battle and movement now placed it to the right of White’s unit. Heading up the two segments were Colonel Paul A. The Combat Command had initially been separated into the two columns at the start of the offensive for the purpose of better control. On August 3, Combat Command B (CCB) of the 2nd Armored Division, divided into two columns, had reached the vicinity of Sept-Freres and the village of Courson, farther to the west.
First Army spread out across the base of the Contentin Peninsula.
#SHERMAN TANK BATTLES FULL#
One of these minor affairs, which involved an M4 Sherman/Mark V German Panther tank duel, occurred on Augjust to the southeast of Saint-Sever-Calvados.īy the close of July 1944, the Cobra breakout was approaching full tide as the armored columns of U.S. Yet the sum of these less noted engagements, now all but forgotten, were the underpinnings of the better-known military operations. Overshadowed by these major events are those countless small-unit actions that were just as violent and nerve-wracking to German and Allied participants. This is as it should be considering their overall importance. Lô and Caen, Operations Goodwood and Cobra, and the subsequent Argentan-Falaise Pocket have always drawn major attention from historians, with respect to the early struggle for supremacy in France. The Normandy landings, the fighting at St.
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