![]() ![]() Additionally, in attempting to describe how the Army was organized in 1940-41, he shows that, either he did not research the topic, or he wasn't paying attention when writing. The first couple of chapters try to set the stage, however, the author mainly manages to literally repeat the same descriptions six different times. The book is framed around six National Guard units formed into armored companies just before World War II. This was a very disappointing book, made worse because the subject matter has incredible potential. During January, February, and March 1942, the light tanks of the PTG patrolled Bataan’s beaches and, in a new r The next day, General MacArthur ordered the retreat to Bataan, and over the next two weeks, the PTG, proving itself indispensable, formed a blocking force to cover the retreat and dealt the enemy tanks such a defeat that the Japanese would be timid with their armor for the rest of the campaign. Sent north to meet the Japanese landings in Lingayen Gulf, the men of the group, still learning their way around an M3 tank, found themselves thrust into a critical role when the Philippine Army could not hold back the Japanese. ![]() One of the tankmen parked his half-track on a runway and shot down a Japanese Zero that day, but the group’s first tank-on-tank action – indeed the first American armor battle of World War II – would come two weeks later. ![]() The American Provisional Tank Group had been in the Philippines only three weeks when the Japanese attacked the islands hours after the raid on Pearl Harbor. ![]()
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