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- General Courtney Hodges -
| Above: Gen. Courtney Hodges (left) visiting the 3rd Armored Division in France in 1944, and (right) Gen. George Patton photographed in 1945 after the war in Europe. (Hodges photo by Marvin Mischnick, 3AD Hq G-2 photographer, and Patton photo from the Patton Museum, Fort Knox, KY.) |
| Gen. Hodges (left) and Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose, 3rd Armored Division commander, at a ceremony at the Mauser Estate between Remagen and Honnef after the 3AD had completed its Rhine crossing. The date was 24 March 1945. Six days later Rose would be killed in the advance on Paderborn, and on April 2 Hodges flew to Rose's burial ceremony at Ittenbach, Germany. (NARA photo) |
| Unlike the scene in the movie "Patton," it was Gen. Hodges who first met the Russians. The date was 30 April 1945 at Torgau, Germany, on the Elbe River. At right is Maj. Gen. G.V. Baklanov, commanding general of the Soviet 34th Corps. (NARA photo) |
| American generals who helped pave the way to victory in Europe gather at Twelfth Army Group Headquarters, Bad Wildungen, Germany, on 11 May 1945. Seated in front row are, left to right, William H. Simpson; George S. Patton Jr.; Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, commanding general, U.S. Army Strategic Air Forces; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Omar N. Bradley; Courtney H. Hodges; and Lt. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow, commanding general, Fifteenth U.S. Army. Standing in the rear are, left to right, Brig. Gen. Ralph F. Stearley, commanding general, Ninth Tactical Air Command; Lt. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, commanding general, Ninth Air Force; Lt. Gen. Walter B. Smith, chief of staff, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces; Maj. Gen. Otto P. Weyland, commanding general, Nineteenth Tactical Air Command; and Brig. Gen. Richard E. Nugent, commanding general, Twenty-ninth Tactical Air Command. (NARA photo) |
| Supreme Commander Eisenhower, right, meets with his field commanders, from left, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Commander of the Third Army; Gen. Omar Bradley, Commanding General of the 12th Army Group; and Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges, Commander of the First Army, at an unidentified location in Germany, on March 28, 1945. (AP Photo) |
| Gen. Omar N. Bradley (center) conferring with Gen. Courtney Hodges (left) and Gen. George Patton at Bradley's headquarters somewhere in France on August 17, 1944. (NARA photo) |
| After invasion of Normandy, June, 1944, travelling past bombed out French buildings, is a jeep carrying U.S. Generals (backseat, L-R) Courtney Hodges, George Marshall & Dwight Eisenhower & two unidentified officers in front. |
| Retired Gen. Courtney Hodges, looking forward to hunting with his wife. Photographed at his home in San Antonio, Texas, in 1949. |
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