Antitank Company
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Camp Croft, South Carolina
US Army Infantry Replacement Training Center
An Antitank Company had the primary responsibility to destroy enemy armored vehicles.  It was composed of three antitank platoon, one antitank mine platoon, and a headquarters group. The antitank platoon was made up of a headquarters group and three antitank squad, each armed with one 37 mm antitank gun manned by a squad leader, gunner, four cannoneers, three ammo bearers, and a driver for the 1-1/2 ton six wheeled truck. The members of the squad learned the use of the M1 rifle, M1 carbine, grenades, and the vehicle mounted 50 cal machine gun. The antitank mine platoon, consisting of three squads and a headquarters group, learned to lay and remove mines including removal of enemy mines. Mines were used to disable or slow down enemy vehicles to make them easier targets for the antitank guns.
Firing the 37 mm Antitank gun

 
 
37 mm Training on Wooden Models
Training at Croft began using wooden models ...





 
37 mm Training on the new guns until the the real guns arrived!





 
Gun and prime-mover, the 1-1/2 ton six-wheeled truck
Gun and prime-mover, the 1-1/2 ton six-wheeled truck
 Loading the 37 mm
Laying a Mine Field
Setting mines ... 
 
 

Removing a Mine Field
            and removing them.