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Regarding this list as a whole, we ideally
would like to have included every soldier's full name (with middle
initial), his rank, unit, date of death, service number, and
specialty branch. Unfortunately, the original collection and
retyping in past decades of the many lists complied here was
sometimes incomplete or otherwise less than perfect (in the pre-computer
age). Consequently, some information for a given soldier may
be missing. Please report any errors in
this list, as well as any missing information that you may have.
Contact the webmaster.
Names from the 486th Anti-Aircraft Artillery
Bn, 703rd Tank Destroyer Bn, and 183rd Field Artillery Bn are
now included, but we are still researching the one remaining
battalion that was not an organic unit of the Division, but nevertheless
was de facto permanent and rode under the 3AD banner. That unit
was the 991st Field Artillery Bn. Anyone who can help with that
information, please contact us.
Our thanks to Harold "Hap" Paulson
(703rd TD Bn, WWII) for sending us in 2006 a copy of a memorial
service program held in Darmstadt, Germany, on May 30, 1945,
which listed the 53 fallen soldiers of the 703rd. Thanks also
in 2006 to Don Marsh (2AD/3AD, WWII) for discovering three additional
names from 143rd Signal Co., with ranks and dates of death, that
had been left off 3AD lists.
The website of the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC),
a Federal program, is another database to search. However, its
records cover only cemeteries or memorials under its jurisdiction
(almost entirely overseas). The ABMC database, as of 2006, lists
a total of 990 names under 3rd Armored Div. It provides the soldier's
unit within the Division (in most cases), and is thorough in
reporting rank, date of death, service number, home state, and
where buried.
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