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“Buzzings of Company B” William Eugene Jones’ History of Company “B” 23rd Armored Infantry Battalion (7th Armored Division) Transcribed from the copy at the Military History Institute in Carlise, PA. Transcribed by Wesley Johnston, son of Walter G. Johnston, Jr., of Company “B”, 38th Armored Infantry Battalion. The original spellings and format are generally retained in the transcript. In particular, most of the European place names are misspelled. Most of the men’s names are spelled correctly but not all. There are a fair number of cases where a name is spelled two different ways on the same page or even in the same paragraph. Word wrap in which a line of text continues to the next line is not necessarily as in the original. If there is any question of accuracy, please contact Wesley Johnston (wwjohnston@) so that the original images can be checked to assure that the transcript does or does not match the original. The footnotes were not in the original. They have been added where subsequent information of sufficient interest is known. Caveat: The histories written by the units or unit members just after the war sometimes have gross errors. This one is no exception. This book should be used as a starting point for understanding what happened, to be checked against more at-the-time records, such as After Action Reports and Morning Reports. The original book is 6” wide and 9 5/16” high. Thus the original pages are much smaller than the 8 1/2” x 11” format of this transcription. It is important to note that the memoir is from first-hand knowledge only until mid-September 1944, when Gene Jones became a casualty. He returned 12 October 1944, but he was there only 4 days, and was again a casualty 16 October 1944 and was out for the duration. Many of the facts and spellings (particularly of the names of the dead) in the roster are dubious or clearly wrong. It appears that Gene Jones wrote there what he received from the men or families, without being able t