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The 10th Armored Division (nicknamed "Tiger Division") was an armored division of the United States Army in World War II. In the European Theater of Operations the 10th Armored Division was part of both the Twelfth United States Army Group and Sixth United States Army Group. Originally assigned to the Third United States Army under General ...
11th Tank Battalion. 21st Tank Battalion. 20th Armored Infantry Battalion. 54th Armored Infantry Battalion. 61st Armored Infantry Battalion. 90th Cavalry Reconnaissance...
- 15 July 1942
- 23 September 1944
- 23 September 1944
- 1944
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10th Armored Division Campaigns during World War II. 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.
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The 10th Armored Division, nicknamed the “Tiger Division,” was activated on 15 July 1942, at Fort Benning, Georgia. After undergoing training and participation in the 1943 Tennessee Maneuvers, the division deployed to the European Theater of Operations (ETO). The division returned to the United States on 13 October 1945 and was deactivated ...
Combat Chronicle. The 10th Armored Division entered France through the port of Cherbourg, 23 September 1944, and put in a month of training at Teurtheville, France, before entering combat. Leaving Teurtheville, 25 October, the Division moved to Mars-la-Tour, where it entered combat, 1 November, in support of the XX Corps, containing enemy ...
On November 16, Corporal Bob Weber, the company clerk in A Company, 54th Armored Infantry Battalion, 10th Armored Division, wrote in his diary, “Crossed the flooded Moselle River on pontoon bridge with the 11th Tank Battalion in the morning at Malling. Cold and snow. Saw first Germans—dead and alive—and took 34 prisoners that day.
