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761st tank battalion battle of the bulge1/20/2024 It was to the black tankers of the 761 st that Patton delivered his famous speech. Patton made a famous speech that is sometimes misquoted and was inaccurately portrayed in the movie Patton. Patton Jr.'s Third Army an army already racing eastward across France, and committed to combat on Nov. Later referred to as the Black Panther Tank Battalion, the 761st was attached to the XII Corps' 26th Infantry Division, assigned to Gen. The 761 st Battalion trained at Camp Hood, Texas, where they received a superior rating from Second Army Commander Lt. It was common practice to segregate blacks into support service units to provide cooks, truck drivers, orderlies, and other noncombat personnel. Prior to WWII, assumptions about the inferiority of black soldiers as combat troops dominated military thinking and policy.
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