Dare All Dangers: The 741st Tank Battalion - D-Day to VE-Day - part 1

Dare All Dangers: The 741st Tank Battalion - D-Day to VE-Day - part 1 With Bill Warnock Part of our Allied Armored Divisions series Allied Armoured Units in WWII Also part of our Tanks series Tanks and Armoured Vehicles Part of our US Army series US Army in WWII Also part of our DDay and Normandy series DDay and the Battle of Normandy And our Battles for Netherlands and Germany series Battles for Netherlands, Belgium and Germany The 741st waged a gruelling war that began on D-Day when twenty-seven of its amphibious tanks sank, and hapless crewmen perished in the frigid water. Other tanks from the battalion successfully landed that day. Their crews battled on Omaha beach before carrying the fight into Normandy and the green hell of hedgerow country. After a hard-won victory in France, the battalion paraded through Paris, motoring down the Champs-Élysées, greeted by waving, screaming crowds. The euphoria of a liberated people enveloped the tankers, but the war and its agonies pulled them back. Dare All Dangers: The 741st Tank Battalion - D-Day to VE-Day - part 1 https://www.youtube.com/live/AaNCebPo... Dare All Dangers: The 741st Tank Battalion - D-Day to VE-Day - part 2 https://youtube.com/live/2QlBW0X3hrQ Fifty years after the war, the book's author, Bill Warnock, commenced work on a narrative about the valiant crewmen and their exploits. The project began by gathering memoirs, battle maps, wartime letters, and official records. Clues also lay in US Army motion-picture film, still photographs, and aerial-reconnaissance imagery. The author hiked the former battlegrounds to familiarize himself with the terrain, architecture, and local cultures. He also conducted nearly 100 interviews with 741st veterans during the 1990s, interviews unobtainable today since the "Greatest Generation" has mostly passed on. The interviews add color and dimension to the story, something impossible to derive from the dry, laconic reports found in official records. Bill Warnock is an award-winning author and military historian. He wrote The Dead of Winter (Penguin USA, 2005), a book chronicling efforts by him and his colleagues to recover missing US soldiers killed during the Battle of the Bulge. Those efforts continue to this very day, and he conducts public-speaking events on the subject. Mr. Warnock also writes articles for WWII History magazine and received a 2010 Distinguished Writing Award from the Army Historical Foundation. passionate about preserving history, unlocking its secrets, and getting the details right. Dare All Dangers https://www.etohistory.com/741st-tank... Dare All Dangers Bonus Offer (expires 31 Dec 2025): https://www.etohistory.com/bonus-content UK https://uk.bookshop.org/a/5843/979899... USA https://bookshop.org/a/21029/97989905... D-Day to the Rhine, 1990 (Charles B. MacDonald) https://billmoyers.com/content/from-d... Other similar shows on WW2TV The Disaster of the DD Tanks on DDay - Omaha Beach https://www.youtube.com/live/2nabCopa... DD Sherman Tank Warriors: The 13th/18th Royal Hussars on D-Day https://www.youtube.com/live/RXc8rOAG... The 756th Tank Battalion at the First Battle of Monte Cassino https://www.youtube.com/live/bVFeW8el... You can become a YouTube Member and support us here @ww2tv You can become a Patron here Patreon: WW2TV Please click subscribe for updates also "like" the video - it really helps! Social Media links - Twitter: WW2TV Facebook: WW2TV Instagram: ww2tv WW2TV Merchandise https://ww2tv.creator-spring.com/ WW2TV Bookshop - where you can purchase copies of books featured in my YouTube shows. Any book listed here comes with the personal recommendation of Paul Woodadge, the host of WW2TV. For full disclosure, if you do buy a book through a link from this page WW2TV will earn a commission. UK - https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/WW2TV USA - https://bookshop.org/shop/WW2TV Patreon Brigadiers: Andrew Harris, Tonet Rivera, John Lonsberg, Susan Yu, David Keahey, Tom Mullen and Jim Walsh Become a WW2TV Brigadier and become part of this Hall of Fame Patreon: WW2TV