761st Tank Battalions
**************888888888888888*******************8888888888888888888********** . Story One - Leonard "Smitty" Smith On May 5, 1945, the 761st Tank Battalion entered the Austrian town of Steyr. Across the Enns River, which ran through town, Russian tanks of the 1st Ukrainian Front pulled up. Tanker Leonard Smith received the shock of his life when a large and strong Russian woman tanker approached him. Shouting “America! America! America!” she swathed him in a tight hug until he could hardly breathe.