Research by Web Staff; 1963 Yearbook
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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

  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.

 Sept 1945  First units return to New York
 Nov 9, 1945

  Division is formally deactivated at a VI Corps ceremony at Aalen, Germany, about 75 miles east of Stuttgart.


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