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As with any industry, the education sector often goes through frequent changes. It is every educator's duty to keep up with these shifting requirements and alter their teaching style accordingly. Fostering Reflective Teaching Practice in Pre-Service Education is an essential reference source that provides a detailed analysis of the most efficient and effective ways for teachers to adapt to changes in their industry. Featuring relevant topics such as reflective teaching methodology, lifelong learning programs, pioneer service learning, and technology integration in education, this book is ideal for current educators, future teachers, academicians, students, and researchers that would like insight into the best practices for keeping up with the demanding changes in the education field.
List of contents
Introduction / Foreword / Prologue / Seek, Strike and Destroy / North Africa / Vindication in North Africa / Italian mud! / Stalemate at Cassino / Anzio "Easy at first but tough as hell now" / Push Them Back into the Sea / World War One All Over Again / Breakout for Rome / Here We Go Again - Training for the Forgotten D-Day / France isn't Italy / Conquerors of the Vosges / Alsace / The Other Battle of the Bulge / Germany at Last / It Finally Ends / Epilogue / Appendixes / Bibliography
About the author
Victor "Tory" Failmezger is a retired US Naval Officer and nephew of Lieutenant Thomas Peter Welch of the 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion, the discovery of whose wartime letters inspired this book. In the early 1970s Commander Failmezger was stationed at NATO in Naples, Italy and lived in an apartment overlooking the Bay of Pozzuoli where the 601st conducted practice landings for both the Anzio and Southern France landings. In the early 1980s he served as the Assistant Naval Attaché in Rome, Italy and was a participant in the celebration marking the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Rome. A later tour found him as the Director of the US Navy Science and Technology Group, Europe in Munich, Germany.
He is a graduate of the US Foreign Service Institute (Italian) and the Defense Language Institute (German). After retirement he worked as a consultant in the private sector and for the US Department of Energy and NASA. His historical works include Roman Bronze Coins from Paganism to Christianity and Paget, Discoverer of Hades. He lives in Virginia, UK.
Summary
As the war swung in the favor of the Allies, it became clear that no final defeat of the Third Reich would be possible until the armored monsters of the Panzerwaffe were defeated. But who would, or even could, take on the mighty Tigers and Panthers, just a handful of whom could stop entire formations in their tracks? The answer lay with the formation of a new type of unit, the Tank Destroyer Battalion. This is the story of the men and machines who made up the very first Tank Destroyer Battalion, the 601st, from their unique training and formation, to the final, desperate battles in the heart of Nazi Germany. Packed with rare material, letters, diaries and unpublished photographs, this is an intense and intimate chronicle of the men who fought the Panzers in an astonishing 10 campaigns and 546 days of lethal combat.
Foreword
An exhilarating combat history of the 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion, the very first pure Tank Destroyer force. Covering the formation of the unit, through its deployment in the gauntlet of every major campaign against Germany in the West, this book draws on unpublished photographs, diary entries and letters paint an incredibly intimate picture of the experiences of the men that tackled the most dangerous foe in Europe the Panzers.
