As a segregated African American unit, it took part in the struggle for racial equality-a struggle in which the men of the 761st-the so-called “Black Panthers,”-would engage for the rest of their lives.īrought into existence on April 1, 1942, at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, the 761st Tank Battalion trained amid the restrictions and racism of the Jim Crow South. But the 761st’s fight was not just against the Germans. The 761st Tank Battalion’s motto was “Come Out Fighting.” And that it did, from its first engagement at the little Belgian town of Morville-les-Vic in November 1944, and through heavy combat right through to the end of the war. Top Image: Shoulder sleeve patch of the United States 761st Tank Battalion.
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