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Where can you find any information on the 820th TD BN?
For reunion info, please contact the following:
820th Tank Destroyer BattalionMr. Steven Siekierka24931 S. Sylbert Ct.Redford, Michigan 48239(313) 532-8306
Tank Destroyers
The tank destroyer force was created as a mobile GHQ antitank reserve in 1941. The original concept called for battalions to be concentrated in tank destroyer brigades and groups for employment en masse against an armored threat. In practice, the realities of combat and the erosion of the German Panzer force meant that the tank destroyers were usually attached individually to divisions.
Initial War Department plans called for the creation of 220 TD battalions, a figure that was never achieved. By the end of 1943, 106 battalions were in existence of which fifty-six served in Europe or Italy and six in the Pacific. Eleven of the remaining battalions were converted to armored field artillery, amphibious tractor, chemical mortar, or tank battalions. Thirty-six battalions were disbanded -- with their personnel going to the replacement pool.
The first TD battalions organized were fully self-propelled. However, combat experience in North Africa appeared to show that towed guns would be desirable. As a result, about one-half of the battalions were converted to towed in 1943. Unfortunately, further experience proved that towed guns were simply too immobile, making them highly vulnerable. As a result, in 1944 many of the towed battalions were converted back to self-propelled. On 1 January 1945, a total of 73 battalions were active.
The tank destroyer battalions were all organized with three companies, each company was equipped with twelve guns, for a total of thirty-six in the battalion. The early battalions also had an antiaircraft and an engineer platoon which were later discarded. A strong reconnaissance element was retained, equivalent to a mechanized cavalry troop.
The TD battalions first employed two stopgap ad hoc weapons, the M3 halftrack, which mounted an elderly 75mm gun and the M6 TD, a Dodge 3/4 ton Weapons Carrier with a 37mm AT gun crudely mounted in the truck bed. Later, in North Africa in 1943, the TD battalions began to receive the first standardized TD gun, the M10. The M10 was based on a variant of the M4 tank chassis, was lightly armored, and had poor cross-country mobility and speed. However, its 3" gun, a development of the prewar AA gun, was quite powerful for the time. By early 1944 the first purpose-designed TD appeared, the M18, and began to slowly replace the M10. The M18 was more lightly armored than the M10, but had very good cross-country mobility and impressive speed. Furthermore, the gun was an improved 3", known as the 76mm, with a more powerful cartridge case and muzzle-break, giving it greater accuracy and hitting power. Finally, also in 1944, the M36 was deployed. The M36 utilized the same chassis as the M10, but mounted the powerful 90mm gun (also originally an AA weapon). The M36 was the most powerful antitank weapon in the U.S. arsenal, with the newly developed high-velocity armor piercing rounds (HVAP, also known as APCR for Armor Piercing Composite Rigid), the 90mm was easily capable of defeating all German armor, if it could get the first hit.
The seventy-three tank destroyer battalions active and their armament on 1 January 1945 were:
There were fifty-two in the ETO: the 601st (M36, also served in Tunisia, Sicily, and Italy with M3 and M10), 602nd (M18), 603rd (M18), 607th (M36), 609th (M18), 610th (M36), 612th (M18), 614th Colored (T), 628th (M36), 629th (M10), 630th (M36), 631st (M10), 634th (M10), 635th (M10), 636th (M10, also served in Tunisia and Italy), 638th (M18), 643rd (M18), 644th (M10), 645th (M36, also served in Italy with M10), 654th (M36), 691st (M36), 692nd (T), 701st (M10), 702nd (M36), 703rd (M36), 704th (M18), 705th (M18), 771st (M36), 772nd (T), 773rd (M36), 774th (M36), 776th (M36, also served in Tunisia and Italy with M10), 801st (T), 802nd (T), 803rd (M36), 807th (T), 808th (M36), 809th (M36), 811th (M18), 813th (M36, also served in Tunisia and Sicily with M3 and M10), 814th (M36), 817th (T), 818th (M36), 820th (T), 821st (M10), 822nd (T), 823rd (M10), 824th (T), 825th (T), 827th Colored (M18), 893rd (M10), and 899th (M36, also served in Tunisia with M10). Before the end of the war in Europe eight more battalions converted to SP, the 692nd(M10), 801st (M18), 802nd (M10), 817th (M18), 820th (M18), 822nd (M18), 824th (M18), 825th (M10).
Four were in route to the ETO: the 605th (T, converted to M10 in March)), 648th (T), 656th (M36), and 661st (M18).
Four were serving in the MTO: the 679th Colored (T), 804th (M10, also served in Tunisia), 805th (T, also served in Tunisia with M3), and 894th (M10, also served in Tunisia).
Six were serving in the PTO: the 632nd (M10), 637th (M18), 640th (M10), 671st (M18), 806th (M10), and 819th (M10).
Seven remained in the US: the 606th (SP, disbanded 28 February), 611th (T, disbanded 20 February), 627th (SP, in Hawaii, disbanded 10 April), 633rd (M18, arrived in the ETO 12 April), 652nd (SP), and 670th (SP, in Hawaii, disbanded 10 April), and 816th (T, disbanded 20 February).
Like the mass employment of separate tank battalions, the deployment of the tank destroyers in mass to defeat enemy armored attacks was never actually practiced. In the Ardennes Campaign the Third Army employed one TD battalion as an augmentation to the army's Military Police force. By the end of the war it was clear that the tank destroyer experiment had no future in the army, on 10 November 1945 the Tank Destroyer Center at Fort Hood Texas was officially discontinued, ending the existence of the tank destroyer force.
Are you sure that is not an Iver Johnson? What are the other markings on the gun? sales@countrygunsmith.net Forehand Arms was bought by Hopkins and Allen in 1903 and that company made some revolvers marked with the Forehand name. But the Model 1900 and owl trademark are both Iver Johnson marks. I suppose IJ could have made a few with that name sometime after H&A went out of business in 1915, but you probably have a "bitzer" combining parts of two similar guns.
Where can you find information on the USS Makassar Strait CVE-91?
May I respectfully suggest:
Register of Ships of the US Navy,1775-1990 by K. Jack Bauer & Stephen S. Roberts New York Greenwood Press 1991 ISBN: 0-313-26202-0
and
History of US Naval Operations in WW 2 XIV vol. & supplement by Samuel Eliot Morison Edison, NJ Castle Books 2001
Richard V. Horrell WW 2 Connections.com
Bring up this site and read the history of that ship. Carriers
Here is a picture of the ship breaking up. Image and Image2
All this information comes from the web site Haze Gray and Underway
My father served on the Makassar Strait (The Might Mak) from commissioning thru October 1945. I have lots of specific information & photographs from his time aboard, as well as websites detailng her service record. Feel free to contact me.
I just got 244 hits just doing a search for "CVE-91 Makassar Straight" hope this helps
I just answered another question about the Makassar Strait. Just finished printing a history of her from the time her keel was laid in Astoria Washington until the secretary of the navy authorized her use as a target ship on 28 August 1958. She was struck from the navy list Sept 1, 1958. I would be happy to send a copy if you want one. I am interested because my brother served aboard her.
How did Katrina affect animals?
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Is Bollywood movie 'houseful' universal or adult?
Housefull is a Bollywood famous movie. It is a Universal movie that is for children too. This movie is a comedy movie.
Where can you find information about German Lugers?
I luger is a type of pistol used by the German army during WW1.
Does Katrina from then Katrina and the waves have a brother called Justin Edwards?
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Where can you find any information on a Model 82?
Tell us as much as you can about it. Rifle, shotgun, or pistol? Action type? All I have is a note that it was produced in 1936 and 1937. Perhaps it is included in the Blue Book entry as a "submodel" of something else.
ID Watchdog - Who is Erik Hansen?
According to the web site at IdWatchdog.com, he is the VP of Marketing or Press Media guy. 303-339-8013
He also appears to be part of Thornton Colorado City Council.
He is the Mayor of Thornton CO and VP of Marketing at ID Watchdog.
Hansen in the lead for Thornton mayor ....
http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Stories/News/Government/Story~388701.aspx
Erik Hansen has lived in Colorado for the past fourteen years after moving here from the Midwest. Mr. Hansen grew up on a hog and corn farm in Iowa in a small Danish community and still retains strong ties to that area. He and his college sweetheart wife, Holly, have been married since 1997 and have a son, Quincy, age 5 and a daughter, Grace, age 3.
Mr. Hansen is the Vice President of Marketing for ID Watchdog, a Denver-based identity theft protection company. Previous to that he has owned a business in Thornton, been engaged as a consultant in the direct marketing and software industry and served as a marketing manager for Video Professor, Inc. and Amrion, Inc. He received a bachelor's degree in political science from Truman State University and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Denver.
Also an active community member, Mr. Hansen was elected to the position of Mayor in November of 2007. Previous to that, he served as a Thornton City Councilmember, elected first in 2001. He has also been chairman of the Agency for a Clean Thornton board and was president of the Woodbridge Station Homeowner's Association. Mr. Hansen is a member of the Rotary Club of Denver Metro North and St. Stephen's Lutheran Church in Northglenn. When asked why he was interested in being elected to city council, Mr. Hansen said "I feel a strong calling to public service. Our community is important to me, and I believe we can continue to make it a great place to raise a family."
Erik Hansen can be reached at the City of Thornton at 303-538-7531 or at home 303-252-0298. His City e-mail address Erik.Hansen@cityofthornton.net
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He is only the VP of Marketing - his boss appears to be Daryl and Justin Yurek. The Global Gold Inc outfit in Vegas, also First National Gold and First Plus Platinum, also owning VCOMM, seem to be the organizers of this promotion. Let me know what you find out.
Deepak Agarwal
CEO and President
ContactCenter.Com
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No, Erik Hansen used to be the VP of marketing for ID Watchdog. He has since left the company. After his departure, ID Watchdog ended its relationship with Global Gold. Erik Hansen is no longer associated with either company.
