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RE: I think there is another hole...
The good news for our countrymen is that by Dec 1944, self-propelled, American tank destroyers (M-10, M-18) in the ETO had traversable, open-topped, turrets and were under the command of both tank leaders - like Abrams in the Bulge - and also line infantry and artillery officers. US TD training & mission had certainly changed since Tunisia as you indicate. However by then, combat experience & evolving mounted combat doctrine had resulted in better-integrated, American and British TD units. They were now, operating as combined arms teams with tanks, self-propelled artillery and infantry, e.g., the assignment of closed-top, M-36 Jackson platoons in regular tank companies, akin to the Brits use of Firefly Shermans in their armed squadrons, etc.
Germans STGs and Jagdpanzers were mostly in the same boat, in terms of who had tactical command from 1941, on.
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