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On September 23, 1944, the 10th Armored Division arrived in the French port of Cherbourg. It soon advanced eastward into the province of Lorraine and along the Moselle River valley. When the German army launched its offensive in the Battle of the Bulge , the "Tiger" division was diverted to the north, where it provided support to Allied forces ...
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Campaigns
1. Ardennes 2. Rhineland 3. Central Europe
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Prisoners of War Taken 43,208
COMPOSITION
1. Headquarters Company 2. Combat Command A 3. Combat Command B 4. Reserve Command 5. 3d Tank Battalion 6. 11th Tank Battalion 7. 21st Tank Battalion 8. 20th Armored Infantry Battalion 9. 54th Armored Infantry Battalion 10. 61st Armored Infantry Battalion 11. 90th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized) 12. 55th Armored Engineer Battalion 13. 150th Armored Signal Company 14. 10th Armored Division Artillery 15. 419th Armored Field Artillery Battalion 16. 420th Armored Field Artillery Batt...
- 15 July 1942
- 23 September 1944
- 23 September 1944
- 1944
On 20 February 1945, the 10th again attacked the German defenses. In one day, they broke the German lines, and after 48 hours, the division advanced 85 miles, overran the Saar-Moselle Triangle, and reached the Saar River. The 10th then crossed the Saar and captured Trier and a bridge across the Moselle River.
Dec 13, 2005 · Earlier, Middleton had directed the commander of the 106th Division to watch the northern entrance to this road, but the immediate threat on the night of the 17th was that the mobile spearheads...
After Heilbronn fell, VI Corps ordered the 10th Armored, along with the 63rd Infantry Division, to leave the mopping up to the 100th Infantry Division and continue southeast for Crailsheim, 40 miles southwest of Nuremberg and 100 miles from Munich.
Fighting around the clock, the 10th pushed a 13-mile front 25 miles in three days, stood outside its first objective, St. Wendel, on March 18. Twenty miles to the south, Seventh Army forces were cracking the outflanked Siegfried Line, pouring through for the first junction with Third Army.
The Tiger Division didn’t begin its overseas service until the war on the Western Front had been under way for three months, but the 10th got into action in time to establish its claim to three big “firsts”: First Third Army division to enter Germany. First Third Army division to capture a major German city—Trier.
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