![The 809th Tank Destroyer Battalion prepares to move out from the French port of Le Havre on January 22, 1945. The equipment consists of M20 command and reconnaissance cars belonging to the 809th’s A Company. The M20 was a variant of the M8 Greyhound, with the turret and 37mm cannon removed.](https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GI-album-3-760x463.jpg)
WWII Quarterly Summer 2013
Tank Destroyers in Action! Photos of the 809th on the Front
By Neal FaussetThe 809th Tank Destroyer Battalion was an independently attached unit of the U.S. Army. The battalion was activated on March 18, 1942, at Camp Forrest, Tennessee, and remained in the United States through most of the war. Read more