[GeronL]

bump

Probably kept those for National Guard or something

[Stonewall Jackson]

They actually moved them over to infantry support. Their 37mm gun was too small to take out a tank, but they did pretty good against pillboxes, machine gun nests, and smaller combat vehicles like half-tracks, trucks, and kubelwagens.

Given the poor performance of TD's in the war, my grandfather's unit was converted into an armored cavalry battalion and given tanks and armored cars. They were in Washington state, loading their equipment onto LSTs for the invasion of the Japanese home islands, when the war ended.