Pershing's Tankers. Personal Accounts of the AEF Tank Corps in World War I

Ed. by Lawrence M. Kaplan; foreword by Dale E. Wilson. — Lexington: KY, 2018. — ISBN: 9780813176062.List of Illustrations.
Foreword.
Editor’s Introduction.
Historical Summary of US Army Tank Corps Operations.
Tank Corps Senior Leader Commentary.
Colonel Ira C. Welborn, Report of the Director of the Tank Corps.
Brigadier General Samuel D. Rockenbach, Congressional Testimony.
Brigadier General Samuel D. Rockenbach, Infantry Journal Article.Official Tank Corps Personal-Experience Reports.
302d Tank Center.
Colonel George S. Patton Jr., Commander, 304th Tank Brigade.
Second Lieutenant John G. Heming; Private First Class Joseph T. Angelo; First Lieutenant Paul S. Edwards; Captain Elgin E. Braine, — Headquarters (HQ), 302d Tank Center.
Captain Maurice H. Knowles, Reconnaissance Officer (RO), HQ, 302d Tank Center.
First Lieutenant Donald C. Wilson, Salvage and Repair Company, 302d Tank Center.326th/344th Tank Battalion.
Major Sereno E. Brett, Commander, 344th Tank Battalion.
Second Lieutenant Donald M. Taylor, HQ, 344th Tank Battalion.
First Lieutenant Julian K. Morrison; First Lieutenant Leslie H. Buckler; First Lieutenant Gordon M. Grant; First Lieutenant Raymond P. Pennoyer, — Company A, 344th Tank Battalion.
Captain Newell P. Weed; Captain Harry G. Borland, RO; First Lieutenant David M. Bowes; Second Lieutenant Stephen L. Conrey; Second Lieutenant Donald M. Call, — Company B, 344th Tank Battalion.
First Lieutenant Henry C. Jennings; First Lieutenant Edwin A. McCluer; First Lieutenant Loyall F. Sewall; Second Lieutenant Harlow A. Wood; Second Lieutenant Arthur Snyder, — Company C, 344th Tank Battalion.
Second Lieutenant George B. Heilner, RO, 344th Tank Battalion.327th/345th Tank Battalion.
First Lieutenant William C. Louisell; First Lieutenant Theodore J. Sledge, — HQ, 345th Tank Battalion.
Second Lieutenant William A. Dietz; Second Lieutenant Lester W. Atwood, — Company A, 345th Tank Battalion.
Captain Ernest A. Higgins; First Lieutenant Harry E. Gibbs; First Lieutenant Harvey L. Harris; Second Lieutenant Harry M. Mayne, — Company C, 345th Tank Battalion.
Second Lieutenant Harold H. Neff, Company B, 330th Tank Battalion.301st Tank Battalion.
Captain Franklin V. Tenkonchy, HQ, 305th Tank Brigade.
Major Roger B. Harrison, Commander, 301st Tank Battalion.
First Lieutenant Thomas N. Miller; Second Lieutenant Hugh S. Taylor; Second Lieutenant Kenneth P. Watts; Second Lieutenant Roland T. Adams, — Company A, 301st Tank Battalion.
Captain Carleton Reynell; Second Lieutenant Roy M. Lester; Second Lieutenant David E. Heaphy; Second Lieutenant Claude E. Gans; Second Lieutenant Paul S. Haimbaugh, — Company B, 301st Tank Battalion.
Captain Ralph de P. Clarke; Second Lieutenant John A. Logan; Second Lieutenant Harry M. Woods, RO, — Company C, 301st Tank Battalion.
Second Lieutenant R.E. Hughes, 301st Tank Battalion.Unofficial Personal Accounts.
George S. Patton Jr., Personal Correspondence.
George S. Patton Jr., letter to his wife, Beatrice, June 13, September 16, 19, 20, 26, 28, 1918.302d Tank Center.
“New Jersey Boy Bravest Man in American Army” (Private First Class Joseph T. Angelo—Headquarters, 302d Tank Center).344th Tank Battalion.
Excerpt from “Only One of Us Can Get Out—And Out You Go” (Sergeant Virgil L. Morgan, Company A, 344th Tank Battalion, letter to John A. Roberts, the father of Corporal Harold W. Roberts, Company A, 344th Tank Battalion).
“Many Times over the Top in Tanks” (Corporal James O. Chambers, Company A, 344th Tank Battalion, letter to William S. Livengood).
“Hot Cakes, Hot Shot and a Hot Old Time Chasing the Huns out of Argonne Forest” (Corporal James O. Chambers, Company A, 344th Tank Battalion, letter to William S. Livengood).
“A Tanker’s Experience in Clearing Hun Army out of Argonne Forest” (Corporal James O. Chambers, Company A, 344th Tank Battalion, letter to William S. Livengood).
“Plunging Onward toward Victory” (Corporal James O. Chambers, Company A, 344th Tank Battalion, letter to William S. Livengood).
“A Hero of the Tanks” (Lieutenant John W. Castles Jr., Company B, 344th Tank Battalion, letter to his mother, Mrs. John W. Castles, New York City).
“Lieut. Arthur Snyder Aims to Make Army Life Career” (Lieutenant Arthur Snyder, Company C, 344th Tank Battalion).
Arthur Snyder, “The Five of Hearts at Exermont” (Lieutenant Arthur Snyder, Company C, 344th Tank Battalion).
“Steering a Baby Tank” (Private Alfred Truitt, Company C, 344th Battalion).
“U.S. Tank Corps Did Good Work in Every Big Fight” (344th Tank Battalion).345th Tank Battalion.
“Brave under Fire: Lieutenant Guy R. Chamberlin Never Flinched in Face of Danger” (Lieutenant Arthur N. Chamberlin about Lieutenant Guy R. Chamberlin, HQ, 345th Tank Battalion).Light Tank Battalions.
C. H. Claudy, “Story of the Tank Man” (Unnamed soldier from a light tank battalion).
“Life in Tank Corps Not for Mollycoddles but It Has Many Attractions, Nevertheless: Sergt. Joseph A.W. Appleby and His Pet, Ermentrude” (Sergeant Joseph A.W. Appleby, unnamed light tank battalion).301st Tank Battalion.
“Riding a Tank into Mouths of Machine Guns Is Real Sport” (Second Lieutenant Paul S. Haimbaugh, Company B, 301st Tank Battalion).
“Decorated Vet Recalls Tank Battles on Hindenburg Line More Than Half Century Ago” (Sergeant Carl E. Rosenhagen, Company C, 301st Tank Battalion).
“Rosenhagen, Dunning Won Decorations from British in Field for Tank Exploits” (Sergeant Carl E. Rosenhagen, Company C, 301st Tank Battalion).The National in the World War.
First Lieutenant William M. Rosborough, Company C, 301st Tank Battalion.
“8 Vessels Bring in 12,000 U.S. Troops” (Lieutenant Earle B. Dunning, Company C, 301st Tank Battalion).
“Tomcat of the Tanks Wins 3 War Crosses” (Lieutenant Earle B. Dunning, Company C, 301st Tank Battalion, letter to his mother).
“American Heavies in France” (301st Tank Battalion).
“Tank Corps Men Suffered Heavily from Artillery” (Private Frank Halvey, 301st Tank Battalion).
H.J. Buxton, “Daredevils of War” (Sergeant Hugh J. Follette, 301st Tank Battalion).Unofficial Tank Corps Operational Summaries.
“Tanks Stood Gaff from Belgium to Argonne Battle” (301st, 344th, and 345th Tank Battalions).
Major General John F. O’Ryan, The Story of the 27th Division (301st Tank Battalion).Appendix: Description of the Mark IV tank; Description of British Mark V through Mark IX Series Tanks.
Appendix: Tank Corps Organization Chart.
Appendix: Tank Corps Organization, July–November 1918.
Appendix: The St. Mihiel Offensive.
Appendix: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
Appendix: The 27th and 30th Infantry Divisions in the Somme Offensive, September 29, 1918.
Appendix: The 27th and 30th Infantry Divisions in the Somme Offensive, October 6–21, 1918.
Appendix: The British advance in the Somme Offensive by October 23, 1918.
Appendix: Chart, “United States’ Tank Program in Progress Just Before War Ended”.
Notes.Illustrations.