The 45th Tank Training Regiment moved to Turkestan, becoming part of the 344th Rifle Division. Code: Description: Code: Award: BC POW KIA o p x: Battlefield commission Prisoner of war Killed in Action Oak Leaf Cluster Posthumous GO record for award not found yet During the Cold War, the army was involved in the crushing of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Operation Whirlwind, and the crushing of the Prague Spring, Operation Danube. Men of the 8th Eng Bn, 1st Cav Div put logs under weakened support of a bridge near Yangzi, Korea, to prevent its collapse until a tank retriever can arrive and remove the M-4 tank. (function(src){var a=document.createElement("script");a.type="text/javascript";a.async=true;a.src=src;var b=document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];b.parentNode.insertBefore(a,b)})("//experience.tinypass.com/xbuilder/experience/load?aid=bYdYZQml5V"); 8th Tank Battalion is one of two tank battalions within the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. After traveling to the West Coast by train the men were assigned to various units that were forming up for overseas duty. The Headquarters and Service Company is located in Rochester, New York. In August 1995, the Battalion retrograded its interim M1Al's, and in September and October 1995 received four improved M1A1 tanks at each site. 29 Puckett e-mail 14 February 2010. The 23rd Tank Division was stationed at Ovruch, and the 31st Tank Division at Ternopil, later moving to Zhytomyr. The 8th Tank Army was one of ten Soviet tank armies. The tank that the Marines worked with was the old M4A3E8. Anti-Tank(TOW) Company has been recently reorganized to an Anti-Tank(TOW) and Scout Platoon. Several units of the army used the T-44, the successor of the T-34. These photos are (with a few exceptions) from the period 1943 to 1945. On 1 July 1990 the 23rd Tank Division became the 6065th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base. From then on the army had only the 23rd and 30th Guards Tank Divisions, and the mobilization 50th Tank Division. The 8th Tank Battalion returned to CONUS and was demobilized in March of 1991, The years l991 through mid-1996 found the Battalion retrog rating its M60A1 tanks, undergoing new equipment training and receiving a partial training allowance of interim M1A1 tanks. 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The level of training steadily increased and in 1964 the unit successfully completed its first extended overland movement from Syracuse, NY, to Army Base, Camp Drum, NY; a distance of 80 miles. [5] On 1 May 1957 the army became the 8th Tank Army. Upon redeployment from Iraq, LTC Cho was sent back to Korea where he took command of Combat Support Coordination Team #1, HHC STB-K, and then Battalion S4, Special Troops Battalion, Eighth Army, Yongsan, Korea. During Operation Whirlwind in October and November 1956, the army headquarters was moved to Debrecen, and its troops occupied the eastern part of Hungary on the left bank of the Danube. It may also be used in part or in whole to augment/reinforce the active components, dependent upon support required. After the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, 8th Tank Army became the Ukrainian 8th Army Corps. The army was formed from the headquarters of the 52nd Army. Lejeune, North Carolina, and served with the 2d Tank Battalion. [4], The 8th Tank Army included the following units at the end of the 1980s. It was early on September 1, 1944. Code: Description: Code: Award: BC POW KIA o p x: Battlefield commission Prisoner of war Killed in Action Oak Leaf Cluster Posthumous GO record for award not found yet The 1980's represented a period of company and battalion training exercises in preparation for the mobilization mission in support of the 4th Marine Division. Task Force Withers (the 8th Tank Battalion, 10th (-B) Armored Infantry Battalion, and a platoon of A/704) was charged with defending the northern half of the line, while Task Force Alanis (51st Armored Infantry Battalion, A Company of the 35th Tank Battalion, and a platoon from A/704) protected the southern half.