All rights reserved. Please enable it or install a modern browser that support JavaScript.ĬareersPartnersAbout usWhere to watchSupportThis feature is coming soon.We’re currently working on it! Thanks for your patience.About UsOur StoryLeadershipNewsPressCareersBecoming A CitizenResponsibilitiesPerksWhere To WatchSmart TVStreaming DevicesMobile AppDesktop AppWatch on the webAccessibilityPartnersDistributionContent ProvidersAdvertisers© 2023 Pluto Inc. Most of us were covered with this by the time the battle ends," Macgregor tells Guy Raz.This website needs JavaScript to work properly. Overall, 'War Monsters: The Battle of 73 Easting' is an absorbing and entertaining episode of Greatest Tank Battles. Macgregor tells the story in a play-by-play manner: That morning, as Cougar Squadron made its way toward 73 Easting, bad weather and a sandstorm obscured its range of vision. His unit was ordered to confront a contingent of the Republican Guard dug in along a defensive line in southern Iraq. Douglas Macgregor, who writes about the lead-up and the aftermath of the battle in a new memoir called Warrior's Rage: The Great Tank Battle of 73 Easting. The man who led that group into battle was then-Maj. The horrified Germans were caught completely by surprise as the offensive carved. 26 around a gridline on a military map known as "73 Easting." The unit at the tip of the spear was the 2nd Squadron of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, known as "Cougar Squadron." ( Guerre 14) On Novemthe British attacked at Cambrai with 476 tanks, 378 of them being combat tanks. To the man who led the squadron, the battle was a portent of things to come. To history buffs, the "Battle of 73 Easting" is legendary. 1991, an American Army squadron defeated an elite Iraqi brigade almost twice as large in what is now regarded as the largest U.S.
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