The 3rd Armored Division in World War II

Chronology

• 1941
  • April 15 -- Activation at Camp Beauregard, LA
  • June 14 -- Transfer to Camp Polk
• 1942
  • July -- Mojave Desert, CA
  • October -- Camp Pickett, VA
• 1943
  • January -- Indiantown Gap, PA
  • September 5 -- Board Ships for Europe
  • September 15 -- Liverpool and Bristol
• 1944
  • June 24 -- Omaha Beach, Normandy
  • June 29 -- Villiers-Fossard
  • August 5-8 -- Battle of Mortain
  • September 3 -- Capture of Mons
  • September 8 -- Leige taken
  • September 21 -- Reached Stolberg
  • December 19 -- Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes
• 1945
  • January 16 -- Battle of the Bulge ends
  • March 5-7 -- Cologne
  • March 21 -- Rhine crossing at Honnef
  • March 30 -- Death of General Rose
  • March 31 -- Paderborn
  • April 11 -- Nordhausen
  • April 21-23 -- Dessau
  • May 8 -- VE Day
  • September -- First units return to New York

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