110th AAA: Driving Hitler's Crawlin' Coffin, A Young GI's Account of WWII from D-Day to the Rhine by Lonnie R. Speer.
"Hitler's Crawlin' Coffin" was an 18-ton M-4 high-speed artillery tractor that crept up out of the surf onto "Dog-Green Omaha Beach" hauling a 90mm anti-aircraft gun and its crew for the 110th AAA Battalion during the D-Day invasion of Europe.
The 110th AAA would go on to become the FIRST 90mm Gun Battalion to shoot down a German plane on French soil, the FIRST American AA unit to enter Paris, chosen to guard First Army Headquarters at Spa Belgium, and then go on to distinction during the Battle of the Bulge and, later, in the protection of the Remagen Bridge.
Xlibris Publishing, 2006, 323 pp, Battalion Roster, Appendixes, Notes, Bibliog., Index, Illus.)
HB: $30, PB: $20 postpd.
Surprised to find my uncle Bernard J Picinisco D battery pictured in the book.
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