During World War II, the Army’s Information & Historical personnel conducted hundreds of interviews of troops immediately after significant combat events. The interviews of the 7th Armored Division were:

• August 1944: Beaches to Chartres to Melun to Verdun, France
• September 44: Verdun to Metz and the Moselle River, France (These are hospital Interviews, not combat interviews. Thus they also have information about August 1944.)
• October-November 44: German attack at Meijel, Holland and vicinity, 27 Oct - 7 Nov 1944
• December 1944: the St. Vith Salient, at Krombach, and at Manhay, Belgium
• January 1945: the recapture of St. Vith, Belgium
• March 1945: the Remagen Bridgehead and breakout (encirclement of the Ruhr Pocket)
• April 1945: the reduction of the Ruhr Pocket.

All of these records are now available. I have transcribed and indexed some of them. The rest are available as photocopies of the original interviews and maps – or the first copy of the transcribed and indexed version if I happen to be working on that when you order it. (They will all be transcribed and indexed, after I have completed writing the history of 38th Armored Infantry Battalion, probably in about 2002.)

Click on the links above for details on the interviews and price information. To order copies of the interviews, please send a check (sorry but I am not set up for credit cards), payable to Wesley Johnston, to: