Barracuda, the Bastogne Sherman Tank

[Reg from the Bulge]

Here's what happened with the occupants .....(1944)

 

11th Armored Division, 41st Tank Battalion, Company B. This tank was knocked out of action the afternoon of December 30, 1944 on a farm near the village, Renuamont. It is a couple of miles west of Bastogne

 

Tank Driver, Andrew Urda, and the bow gunner, Ivan Goldstein, were taken prisoner and sent to a concentration camp. The other 3 crew members Tank Commander, Wallace Alexander, Gunner, Cecil Peterman, and the Assistant Gunner, Dage Hebert, were badly wounded and left for the medics. Wallace Alexander never made it back from the war, he was officially listed as FOD, Finding of Death, no remains were ever found. Hebert and Peterman were eventually picked up by our medics and were never POW's.

 

 

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