1SG. Joseph E. Wilson, Sr., USA-Ret-Dec., 1925-2003 (father of historian and author Joseph Wislon, Jr.), served with the 686th Field Artillery Battalion in the Rhineland and Central European Campaigns. During the closing days of WWII he transferred to the 761st Tank Battalion for occupation duty.
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Staff Sgt. Ruben Rivers, posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor (photo credit: Anese Rivers-Woodfork. This rare color photograph was taken in 1944 at Camp Hood, Texas.)
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Credit: Charles P. Ashby – Battalion Sergeant Major, Master Sergeant Robert L. Jenkins 1945
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Page from a WW2 publication entitled Armoraiders prepared by the PR office of the Armored Force Replacement Training Center (AFRTC) at Fort Knox. Provided by Matthew Rector, Historic Preservation Specialist of the Cultural Resources Office at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
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Credit: Leonard Smith – Harry Tyree (right) & Friends
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“Smitty” B.Co 761st TK BN Siegsdorf, Germany – Occupation Winter 45/46
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Credit: Ms. Margaret Crecy – Second Lieutenant Warren G.H. Crecy standing across the street from Baker Company’s billets in Siegsdorf, Germany, 1945. Crecy holds the Silver Star (it should have been the MOH) and also holds the reputation of being “The Baddest Man In The 761st!” The more enemy fire he received, the harder he fought. He slew more enemy soldiers than any other single man in the battalion. He was battlefiled commissioned in 1945.
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Credit: National Archives – Enemy prisoners in the foreground, the Bergermeister (Mayor) wearing knickerbocker britches, white flags hanging from the windows, and forward moving 761st tanks surround a group of 71st Division Doughs. Photo taken in Coburg’s town square on April 12, 1945 is typical of the swift smashing drive in the closing weeks of the war.
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Credit: Paul L. Bates, Colonel USA Retired, Commander of the 761st – To: Joe Wilson, Jr. – whose father was a very courageous, intelligent, brave member of the 761st Tank Battalion. A unit that fought with 7 different infantry divisions in six countries in central Europe for 163 days without a break. The 761st Tank Battalion has the Presidential Unit Citation ofr Extraordinary Heroism in Military Operations Against an Armed Enemy. My nickname used by the men: “The Great White Father”
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