The assault gun platoon, along with the line company assault guns consolidated into a second platoon, was periodically attached to the division artillery as an ad hoc artillery battery to provide supporting fires to the division artillery. They did not receive the 105 mm assault gun equipped tanks until the first week of July 1944. At the time the 746th went into action at Normandy, the assault gun platoon was still equipped with standard M4 Sherman tanks. The Headquarters Company included the battalion headquarters staff, both officers and enlisted men an assault gun platoon, consisting of three Sherman tank variants armed with a 105 mm assault gun a mortar platoon, equipped with three half-track mounted 81 mm mortars a reconnaissance platoon with five quarter-ton “peeps” (jeeps) and the headquarters tank section consisting of two tanks for the battalion commander and operations officer.It consisted of a Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Service Company, three medium tank companies (Companies A, B, and C) and a light tank company (Company D). medium tank battalion during World War II. The 746th Tank Battalion followed the standard organization of a U.S. It served primarily as an attachment to the 9th Infantry Division, but fought alongside numerous other units as well. The battalion participated in combat operations throughout northern Europe until V-E Day. It was one of five tank battalions (all independent) which landed in Normandy on D-Day (6 June 1944). The 746th Tank Battalion was an independent tank battalion that participated in the European Theater of Operations with the United States Army in World War II.
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