Come Out Fighting: The Epic Tale of the 761st Tank Battalion 1942-1945

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Come Out Fighting: The Epic Tale of the 761st Tank Battalion 1942-1945 is text, with genre book jackets.

It was created in 1945.

Trezzvant W. Anderson is the Creator.

It was published in 1945 by Salzburger Druckerei und Verlag in Salzburg, Austria.

This is the book cover of "Come Out Fighting: The Epic Tale of the 761st Tank Battalion 1942-1945". First published in 1945, it gives an account of experiences of the 761st Tank Battalion in World War II. The 761st was the first African American tank battalion of the U.S. Armed Services. Worthington native, George C. Blake was a member of the 761st and was one of eleven men in the unit to be awarded the Silver Star Medal for gallantry in action against enemy forces. The author of the book, Trezzvant W. Anderson was a war correspondent and also member of the 761st Tank Battalion.

It covers the topics World War II, veterans and African Americans.

It features the person George Carey Blake, Sr., 1925-2011.

It covers the city Worthington.

The original is in a private collection.

This file was reformatted digital in the format video/jpeg2000.

The Worthington Memory identification code is wcd0121.

This metadata record was human prepared by Worthington Libraries on June 16, 2004. It was last updated January 24, 2019.