Book Description

This is the story of Buddy Poteet and fifteen men from Collingsworth County, Texas who all trained together at Fort Knox, Kentucky during WWII. The men were sworn to secrecy and moved to the Desert Training Center in Arizona for intense, classified training. The Collingsworth County men arrived in Buddy's ancestral homeland in the Ardennes Forest in Wallonia, Belgium in November, 1944, with the 740th Tank Battalion. When the Battle of the Bulge commenced in December, Buddy and the 740th quickly drove the elite Kampfgruppe Peiper back into Germany. Attached to the 82nd Airborne Division in January, 1945, the 740th attacked to the north of the Bulge. They assaulted the Siegfried Line in February, crossed the Roer with the 8th Infantry Division in March and joined in the drive on Cologne. After reaching the Rhine, the battalion transferred 350 miles south and attached to the 63rd Infantry Division for another attack through the Siegfried Line toward Saarbrucken. They returned to the 8th Infantry Division to hammer at the Ruhr Pocket in April, 1945, crossed the Elbe, and raced to the Baltic Sea.At the end of the war in May, 1945, Buddy and the Collingsworth County Tankers became part of the Occupation Forces in in Witzenhausen, Germany and prevented the kidnapping of Werner Von Braun, as part of operation 'Paperclip'.Buddy's War is the story of brave men who answered the call to help preserve freedom, liberty, and the American way of life.