Post by son-of-tiny on Jun 11, 2008 6:05:48 GMT
BEALE, PETER, TANK TRACKS - 9th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment At War 1940-45.
account of the birth of the Regiment in 1916, brief details of actions near Amiens and the Battle for Moreuil (1918), but mainly of the rebirth in 1940, a lengthy period of training before Normandy a few days after D-Day with Churchill tanks, part of 31 Tank Brigade (later 34 Tank Brigade), action with 15th (Scottish Infantry) Div. in Operation Epsom, into Holland and assisting with enlarging the Arnhem salient, countering the Ardennes offensive, fighting through the Reichweld Forest and into Germany,