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Sherman tanks with 761st Tank Battalion "Black Panthers" spearhead into Bastogne, during the "Battle of the Bulge," November 1944. The 761st Black Panther Tank Battalion, was attached to the XII Corps' 26th Infantry Division, assigned to Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army.

The 761st Tank Battalion was the last of the three United States Army segregated combat tank battalion during World War II. The unit was made up of African Americans soldiers, who by Federal law were not permitted to serve alongside white troops. They were known as the “Black Panthers” and their unit's motto was “Come out fighting."