On 8 January 1943, the Battalion entrained at Camp Bowie, Texas, and after one of its most enjoyable train. trips, arrived three days later at Camp Carrabelle, sixty miles S.W. of Tallahassee, Florida, later designated as Camp Gordon Johnston. Here the Battalion returned once again to the control of the 28th Infantry Division for intensive Amphibious Training in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
The Amphibious training was successfully completed by the end of March 1943, and after a period of leaves and furloughs, during which time the Battalion received its first combat vehicles, 36 M-10 Tank Destroyers. The entire Battalion moved to Camp Rucker, Alabama, in May 1943. Just prior to moving, however~ the Battalion furnished a small cadre of eight men to the 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion all volunteers, who immediately left for over seas duty, the first members of the Battalion to enter combat.
Company History Summary is here; this outside link is linked in turn to a comprehensive history in pdf form.
Another history can be found here.
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A wonderful story about 628th Tank Destroyer Bn. soldier James Carroll, the “hero of Peruwelz Belgium”:
