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3 unusual facts about Doyle Overton Hickey


Doyle Overton Hickey

After World War II the division carried out occupation duty near Langen, and was inactivated in November, 1945.

In the early 1930s he served with the 7th Field Artillery Regiment at Madison Barracks, New York, afterwards being assigned to duty as Director of the United States Park Police in Washington, D.C.

The 3rd Armored had already taken part in combat during the Battle of Hurtgen Forest and the Battle of the Bulge, and after Hickey assumed command the division continued to fight, taking the city of Cologne in March, 1945, and crossing the Saale River.



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