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The 10th Armored Division participated in major WWII campaigns and is recognized for liberating a subcamp of Dachau in 1945.
- Command and Staff
- Statistics
Campaigns
1. Ardennes 2. Rhineland 3. Central Europe
Individual Awards
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
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The 10th Armored Division served under the following commands in the ETO: 5 September 1944: III Corps, Ninth Army, 12th Army Group. 10 October 1944: Third Army, 12th Army Group. 23 October 1944: XX Corps. 7 December 1944: Third Army, 12th Army Group, but attached to VIII Corps, First Army, 12th Army Group.
10th Armored Division World War II Activated: 15 July 1942. Overseas: 13 September 1944. Campaigns: Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe. Distinguished Unit Citations: 5. Awards: DSC-19 ; DSM-1 ; SS-412; LM-20; DFC-2 ; SM-25 ; BSM-2,578 ; AM-29.
Two months earlier, units belonging to Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges’s First Army had breached the West Wall in two places: Aachen and just north of Trier. With troops bogged down by the strongly defended pillboxes, American casualties soared. All implications were that Patton’s troops would find the going equally rough.
Activated 15 July 1942 Arrived ETO 23 September 1944 Arrived Continent (D+109) 23 September 1944 Entered Combat 1944 Days in Combat 124. Campaigns. Ardennes Rhineland Central Europe. Division Composition. Organic Units.
To compensate for the earlier transfer of the 7th Armored Division, Walker received Maj. Gen. William Morris’s 10th Armored Division, which did not take up its place on Walker’s left flank until November 2. House-to-House Fighting in Metz. On October 14, Patton and his corps commanders began to draft the Third Army’s plan of attack.