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Baptism of Fire Cleo Coleman Cleo Coleman of Phelps, Ky., was a loader, and then a gunner, in B Company of the 712th Tank Battalion. During the battalion’s 1994 reunion at Fort Mitchell, Ky., he told me of his first day in combat, on July 3rd, 1944, in the hedgerows of Normandy. I was a […]
Little Joe Walter Galbraith The following account by Pfc. Walter Galbraith of the 712th Tank Battalion is included in “Tanks for the Memories.” The last man on guard at night was supposed to make sure that all the ammunition was out of the guns. We were in Germany, I forget what part of Germany it