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The Division acted as spearhead of a wedge into the enemy line, and its junction with the First Army at Houffalize, 16 January 1945, created a huge trap. After the liquidation of the Bulge, the Siegfried Line was pierced, Lutzkampen falling 7 February 1945, Grosskampenberg on the 17th, and the key point, Roscheid, 20 February.
Patton’s three spearhead divisions—26th and 80th Infantry and 4th Armored—went into action on December 22, 1944 at the height of the Battle of the Bulge. The 4th Armored Division was assigned to open a corridor to relieve the embattled garrison at Bastogne, Belgium. The 80th attacked Ettelbruck, southeast of Bastogne which sat on an ...
The 3rd Armored Division discovers the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp. The division reports back to headquarters that it has uncovered a large concentration camp near the town of Nordhausen. Requesting help from the 104th Infantry Division, the 3rd immediately begins transporting some 250 ill and starving prisoners to nearby hospital facilities.
On Third Army’s left flank, the 10th Armored Division’s Combat Command A, led by Brig. Gen. Kenneth Althaus, reached the Siegfried Switch on November 20. The Siegfried Switch was manned by two rifle battalions and one machine-gun battalion belonging to Pflieger’s 416th Division.
Lieutenant Colonel Sam Hogan, a 28-year-old West Point graduate, led the 3rd Battalion, 33rd Armored Regiment during heavy fighting at the Battle of the Bulge. From there, Task Force Hogan alternated taking the lead with its sister tank battalions within the “always out front” VII Corps. There were picturesque little Belgian villages ...
Dec 13, 2005 · Division suffered battle casualties numbering 105 officers and 1,536 men. CCB of the 10th Armored Division had approximately 25 officers and 478 men as battle casualties. There is no means of numbering the killed, wounded, and missing in the miscellany of unrecorded tankers, gunners, infantry, and others who shared in the defense of Bastogne.
7th Armored Div. The Division landed on Omaha and Utah Beaches, 13–14 August 1944, and assigned to 3rd Army. 9th Armored Div. Played role in operation to deceive the Germans of the real landing site-invasion of France. 10th Armored Div. The division, served under General George S. Patton's Third Army.
