77th Armored Army

I looked directly into the long snout of the howitzer. Too late, I whispered to my driver, "Back her up, " The shell striking the turret sounded like a cathedral bell.

Then a voice in the darkness, "Where are enemy? You know you can't hide from the 77th Armored Army

Over the months of training for the invasion and retaking of Western Europe, We had assembled the most unlikely band of brothers, the most motley of crews. They were misfits all, but they were 77th Armored Army, and We had turn are self into the most formidable fighting crew in all of the World.

We were the supermen; We were the invincible arm of the Lord's wrath. We were the battlefield inheritors of the mounted knights of old. We were the inheritors of their mantle of death, as well. We were fighting a war we saw simply as ours for the taking.