Mmmm, I like the news reporter idea. I know Walter Cronkite rode a Glider with the 101st Airborne Division into Holland in September 1944. Let's assume he wasn't the only one. I will add the reporter option embedded with the unit in France. But I only want one. That would be laughable if everyone decided to play the part of the reporter. 

I have been doing quite a bit of research on the 37th Tank Battalion. They had a 94% turn over rate throughout the course of their time in WWII which was not a long time. They first entered combat on 28 July 1944 and the fighting ended when Germany surrendered 8 May 1945.

If you have ever heard of Creighton Abrams, he is at the center of all this stuff. He was a true American Badass and Patton loved him. He lost six tanks during that nine and a half month period. Not one of them was "shot out from under him" like a cavalryman's horse. They were all maintenance issues. He rode into battle standing high in the turret, exposed for the Germans to see him.