“I had to wait until I could see the tread on the side of the tank before I pulled the trigger.”īeck’s tank destroyer was no match for the 68-ton Tiger tank, with its fearsome 88-millimeter gun. “The first thing I saw was the barrel of its cannon sticking out from behind the building,” he said. He didn’t know we were coming so he pulled out of his hiding place,” Beck recalled. “In the middle of the fighting for Bastogne we got word that a German Tiger tank was hiding behind a building we were approaching. and the other four soldiers in his tank destroyer were in the thick of it. Patton’s 3rd Army broke through the German lines at Bastogne to rescue the 101st Airborne Division, dug in and holding back the enemy onslaught at the Battle of the Bulge.įormer Sgt. It was the day after Christmas 1944 when the 704th Tank Battalion, 4th Armored Division of Gen. John Beck at 24 when he served as the commander of a tank destroyer in the 3rd Army during World War II.
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