![]() ![]() While helping run the bowling alley, and practicing business law, Kent was drafted in 1942. Neither brother was a bowler, but they sensed a good investment. ![]() It stayed under family ownership until the 1960s. Kent and his brother Jack opened a bowling alley, Trojan Bowl, near USC. He moved to Los Angeles in 1939 to practice law. He graduated with honors from Dartmouth College in 1935 and Yale law school in 1938. Leon Earl Kent was born June 23, 1915, in New York. That’s the kind of leadership that inspires troops.”Īfter the war, locals erected in a plaque that, in French, reads: “Here the invader was stopped.” “He wouldn’t ask his troops to do anything he wouldn’t do himself. John Crowe said before a 2011 ceremony at the December 1944 Historical Museum in La Gleize, Belgium. Kent showed was extraordinary leadership,” retired Army Maj. Author Steven Zaloga also scrutinises the technical balance between the opposing sides, comparing armour, mobility and firepower as well as other important factors such as reliability, crew situational awareness, and tank layout/efficiency.įull of specially commissioned and highly accurate artwork plates of the tanks themselves, as well as fascinating technical data based on cutting-edge research, this title is the definitive guide to tank warfare in the Battle of the Bulge.“What Capt. Beginning with a basic overview of the campaign, accompanied by an order of battle of the major armoured units, it examines the opposing forces, covering the organization of the two tank forces to explain how they were deployed. Offering detailed answers to these questions, and many more, this book provides a survey of the principal tank and tank-equivalents (such as tank destroyers and Jagdpanzers) that took part in the Ardennes Campaign of December 1944-January 1945. The Battle of the Bulge raises many questions which, until now, have not been adequately answered: How did the major tank types perform during the battle? What were the specific 'lessons learned' from the combat? And did these lessons result in changes to tanks in the subsequent months? ![]()
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