Sep 10, 2024
1985…. Forward Observer Unit. 🇺🇸
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1985…. Forward Observer Unit. 🇺🇸
An essential component of combined-arms tactics was artillery support from the armored division’s self-propelled field-artillery battalions. This is Lieutenant Ode Odens, a forward observer of the 440th Armored Field Artillery Battalion on his tank during 7th Armored Division operations near St. Vith on January 25, 1945. Each tank and armored-infantry battalion had at least one forward observer attached to them during operations.
Photo and caption featured in Osprey Combat 22 Panzergrenadier vs US Armored Infantryman European Theater of Operations 1944 by Steven J. Zaloga