Written Experiences

This complication of stories is the veterans themselves talking about their experiences during the war. Click the underlined title to see the story.

12th Armored Division

• The History of the Jerry Can and How It Won the War / The Little Can That Could

• …a good day's work

• Indescribable Horror

• Museum Story

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17th Armored Infantry Battalion

• Twenty-Three Long Days and Nights

• A Prisoner in World War II

• Memories of Captain Carl J. Helton

• Herrlisheim Story

• Herman Joseph Ernspiker 17th C

• World War II Experiences of Carl J. Lyons

• Rescues Wounded Fighter Pilot

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23rd Tank Battalion

• The Day Pete Vickless Died

• Mama and The GI

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43rd Tank Battalion

• Experiences at a Concentration Camp (April 28, 1945)

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44th Tank Battalion

• 44th Tank Battalion "Red" Cartier's Journal

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56th Armored Infantry Battalion

• Marvel Rowland B 56, Memoir

• Ed Pierce Collection

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66th Armored Infantry Battalion

• History of German Saw-Dust Bread

• GI never expected to see his old duffel bag again - Hoeweler

• My Story as a Soldier

• Story of Thomas T. Perrett (starting December 7, 1941)

• This is 'It', the Real Thing

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82nd Medical Battalion

• Rice - Recollections Combat Medic

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92nd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron

• Trier to the Rhine-Military Monograph

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119th Armored Engineer Battalion

• WWII Combat Memoirs

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493rd Armored Field Artillery

• Atrocities of Lansburg Concentration Camp

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494th Armored Field Artillery

• Ken Bradstreet Papers

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572 Anti-Aircraft Artillery

• Strafing and Liberation - Rescued Holocaust Experience

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714th Tank Battalion

• A Few Days In France (1944-1945)

• The Military Life of Howard Elwell Myers

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Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Articles (academically-accepted secondary sources) relevant to the history of the 12th Armored Division. We reserve the right not to publish or distribute any materials that we deem objectionable, offensive, or otherwise inconsistent with our objective of honoring the members of the 12th Armored Division.