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3rd Armored Division
in World War II
CHRONOLOGY OF KEY EVENTS |
| April 15, 1941 |
Activation at Camp Beauregard,
LA |
| June 14, 1941 |
Transfer to Camp Polk, LA |
| July 1942 |
Mojave Desert, CA, training |
| Oct 1942 |
Camp Pickett, VA, training |
| Jan 1943 |
Indiantown Gap, PA, training |
| Sept 5, 1943 |
Board ships for England |
| Sept 15, 1943 |
Arrive in Liverpool and Bristol |
| Late Sept 1943 |
Start of training in England |
| Late May 1944 |
Still in England, but something's
up |
| June 24, 1944 |
Omaha Beach, Normandy (D+18) |
| June 29, 1944 |
First blood at Villiers-Fossard,
France |
| July 26, 1944 |
Breakthrough at St. Lo, France |
| Aug 5-8, 1944 |
Battle of Mortain, France |
| Aug 7, 1944 |
Gen. Rose asumes Division command |
| Aug 13-18, 1944 |
Battle of Argentan-Falaise
Gap, France |
| Sep 2, 1944 |
Cross into Belgium |
| Sept 3, 1944 |
Capture of Mons, Belgium |
| Sept 8, 1944 |
Capture of Liege, Belgium |
| Sept 12, 1944 |
First into Germany |
| Sept 13, 1944 |
Breaching of Siegfried Line |
| Sept 21, 1944 |
Advance to Stolberg, Germany |
| Oct 18-21, 1944 |
Siege & capture of Aachen, Germany |
| Oct - Dec 1944 |
The grinding Stolberg stalemate |
| Dec 18, 1944 |
Back to Belgium (the Bulge) |
| Dec 19, 1944 |
Battle of the Bulge/Ardennes |
| Jan 16, 1945 |
Battle of the Bulge ends |
| Febr 7, 1945 |
Re-capture of Stolberg |
| March 5-7, 1945 |
Capture of Cologne, Germany |
| March 21, 1945 |
Rhine Crossing at Honnef |
| March 29, 1945 |
Advance to Paderborn |
| March 30, 1945 |
Death of General Rose |
| March 31, 1945 |
Capture of Paderborn |
| April 11, 1945 |
Capture of Nordhausen V1/V2
Rocket Plant |
| April 11, 1945 |
Liberation of Nordhausen Slave
Labor Camp |
| April 21-23, 1945 |
Capture of Dessau on the Elbe |
| April 25, 1945 |
Occupation of Sangerhausen
area. |
| May 8, 1945 |
VE Day (Germany surrenders) |
May 13, 1945 -
Oct 1945 |
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Occupation of the 7th Army Western Military District
sector described as generally south of Frankfurt and extending
south to include Darmstadt, east almost to Aschaffenburg, and
west to the Rhine River. |
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| Sept 1945 |
First units return to New York |
| Nov 9, 1945 |
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Division is formally deactivated at a VI Corps
ceremony at Aalen, Germany, about 75 miles east of Stuttgart. |
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