761st

Maroma Productions + Double7 Images, Feature Documentary

Available on DVD

The 761st was the first unit to enlist African-American soldiers to operate armored vehicles. What the Tuskegee Airmen were to the skies, the 761st was to land, as they were requested by General George S. Patton to assist with heavy fighting during the Battle of the Bulge in WWII. The soldiers of the 761st Tank Battalion fought for 183 consecutive days, in six countries, and with great success despite a fifty-percent casualty rate. They were commonly referred to as “Eleanor Roosevelt’s Niggers”, but proved themselves to be America’s Men in what we now call the “Greatest Generation”.

Maroma Productions tapped director Pete Chatmon to helm this documentary.
Narrated by Emmy-Award Winning actor Andre Braugher.

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761st Official Trailer