Capture Hellcats: The 12th Armored Division In World War II Executed By John C. Ferguson Script

granddad was a Hellcat, so I read this book to learn about what that division did during WWII.
It's a very quick read, so quick it seemed to devote as much time to the construction of their initial training facility as it did to the movements in Europe as General Patton's secret armored division.
While I was disappointed in it's lack of personal detail, it does give a rundown of each of their major battles in a concise manner.
The best thing about this book for me was that it whet my appetite for more information on the Hellcats and I'll be seeking out other books on them in the future.
This book was very interesting to me, because my father was part of a tank division of this unit before

I was born.
I have visited some of the locations, and it was moving to think that my father was in the same area in.
It added context to information that already had, I appreciated the quotes from individual soldiers, During the course of the Second World War, the United States Army raised and maintained eightynine combat divisions, including sixteen armored divisions.
Most of those units were created during the war and served only for the duration of the conflict, After going overseas and fighting to achieve victory, most of the World War II divisions were disbanded and faded into obscurity.


This heavily illustrated narrative is the story of one of those units, theth Armored Division, which trained on the plains of West Texas at Camp Barkeley near Abilene.
From its initial action, to the liberation of Nazi death camps, to the ultimate victory and peace, the division's story serves as a vehicle to study the many temporary army units that served our country during its most trying time.
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