TANK DESTROYERS PLAYED BIG ROLE IN WAR Series: Faces That won the war This is one in a series of profiles of area World War II veterans the Courier & Press will publish each day until the Saturday dedication of the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Evansville Courier & Press | May 27, 2004| | Copyright

The temperature was 15 degrees with a wind chill well below zero, but to Leland Gibson, Dec. 16, 1944, was "hotter than hell."

That was because of the machine gun fire and 88mm shells from the German armies and tanks rushing forward in the Battle of the Bulge.

It was the first combat experience for Gibson, who was born in Wadesville, Ind., and was farming when drafted into the Army at the end of 1942. Now 82, he lives in Evansville.

During World War II, he was with C Company of the 811th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

Now six decades later, he laments that nobody knows what tank destroyers were or ...

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