Third Armored Division Chronology

Chronology of the Third Armored Division in World War II

 

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