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Please note that the Moselle River 1944 Association is extending this invitation to those U.S. Veterans who served in the Moselle region during World War II. Any veteran who served in the 5th, 90th or 95th Infantry Division or in the 10th Armored Division are invited, all well as their families and friends.
HISTORY: The 10th Armored Division ("Tiger Division") was activated 15 July 1942 at Ft. Benning, Ga. and assigned to the Armored Force. After participating in the Tennessee maneuvers June to September 1943 under the Second Army, the Division was transferred to Camp Gordon, Ga., where training was continued. It left for overseas from New York 13 ...
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The 1st Armored Division, nicknamed "Old Ironsides", [1] is a combined arms division of the United States Army. The division is part of III Armored Corps and operates out of Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. It was the first armored division of the United States' Army to see battle in World War II.
The 63rd AIB was in reserve with CCA. On February 9th the battalion relieved the 21st Armored Infantry Battalion at Heckhuscheid, Germany. The next day the battalion captured and dynamited 10 enemy pillboxes and captured 15 German soldiers near Hill 568. On February 15th the battalion was relieved and ordered back to Belgium for rest and ...
Though they arrived too late to take part in the Arracourt fighting, the unit, now assigned to Fifth Panzer Army, was in place to continue the attack against the consolidating U.S. 4th Armored Division. Exhausted soldiers of the 10th Armored Infantry battalion move out after the fighting at Arracourt in September 1944.
The 11th Armored Division, nicknamed the “Tiger Division,” was activated on 15 August 1942, at Camp Polk, Louisiana. After undergoing training and participatiing in the Louisian Maneuvers and later, the California Maneuvers, the division deployed to the European Theater of Operations (ETO), arriving in France in December 1944.
