WO 171/607 - 6 Guards Tank Brigade - October 1944

Instructions regarding War Diaries and Intelligence Summaries are contained in F.S. Regs., Vol. 1. and the Staff Manual respectively Title pages will be prepared in manuscript.	WAR DIARY or INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY	Army Form C.2118
	WAR DIARY or INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY	Unit: 6th Guards Tank Brigade
Month and Year: October 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer: Brigadier W.D.C. Greenacre, M.V.O.

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
	12	1210	The Start line was crossed at 1210 hrs, later than had been planned. The artillery barrage began at 1200 hrs. The adv on OVERLOON went smoothly and without major incident until the mine-fields to the NORTH were encountered. Here 2 HQ tanks of 4 Tk Coldm Gds were put out of action, thus destroying two sources of R/L information within a few minutes of each other. There was little first-hand news for some two hours and it was then learned that 2 more tanks had been put out of action by a Panther tank several of which were previously reported in OVERLOON.

Source: Jeroen Koppes, TracesOfWar.com, transcribing: Hans Houterman.

Disclaimer: This War Diary is based on its original, but typos might be corrected. Locations are calculated, so might not be in the correct place. For historical research, always check the originals.

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