Battalion proper landed at Utah Beach on D-Day. ![]() Liaison personnel accompanied second glider lift of 82d Airborne Division during invasion of Normandy. Almost immediately shifted to United Kingdom. Arrived Naples area, Italy, on 10 November, 1943. Established first American contact with British Eighth Army on 7 April, 1943. Deployed to Gafsa-El Guettar sector, Tunisia, on 16 March, 1943. ![]() Arrived at Casablanca on 26 January, 1943, where they were issued new M10's. Unit History: The 99th Antitank Battalion was redesignated as the 899th Tank Destroyer Battalion on 15 December, 1941.
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