The 740th Tank Battalion, along with infantry, move in the winter weather to defend Stoumont, Belgium. Photos Courtesy of Floyd Killough Collection
FLOYD KILLOUGH
The 82nd Airborne troops travel on foot in the snow behind a 740th tank advancing to Herresbach.
Soldiers wait in anticipation at Lt. B.V. Wilson’s tank.
When 14 young soldiers from Collingsworth County woke up that bitterly cold, foggy Saturday morning, Dec. 16, 1944, in Neufchateau, Belgium, they had no idea, that within 48 hours, they would be thrown into one of the greatest pitched battles on the Western Front in all of World War II.
The 14, all members of the 740th Tank Battalion, had been together since March 1943, when they reported for duty …
