“TASK FORCE DAVISSON”
“Recon, you find ’em; engineers, you fix..:.em ; tanks , you fight ’em; and TD’s, you finish -em!” With these emphatic , but crystal clear adjurations , LTC Henry L. Davisson set the tempo for his task force subordinate commanders . It was 16 December 1944, and the yet-to-be-named “Ardennes Offensive” had exploded. This Kraut’s massive tank penetration now was creating this northern shoulder of what was to be its acquired sobriquet , “The Battle of the Bulge”.
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