"Hitler's Crawlin' Coffin" was an eighteen-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. Landing on
the beach with elements of the 29th Infantry Division and later
supporting the 30th Infantry Division in the breakout of St. Lo,
the 110th AAA would 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. Although
Driving Hitler's Crawlin Coffin begins with the induction of one
person into the 110th AAA, it illustrates how his situation was
typical of all its members and then goes on to chronicle the entire
history of the battalion from its inception at Camp Edwards on Cape
Cod, Massachusetts, in April 1943, through its combat history of
WWII, to its deactivation in Germany in October 1945, all based on
many first-hand accounts from interviews of the veterans,
themselves, and a wide range of additional primary sources and
previously unpublished material such as military records and
archives, morning reports, individual, battery, and battalion
awards and commendations and soldiers' letters, diaries, and
memoirs.(323 pp, 40 photos, battalion roster, notes, bibliography,
index)
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