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unusual facts about armored division



Red Inferno: 1945

Eisenhower and the US Army gets pushed back across the Elbe while losing thousands of troops and a whole US armored division, along with fleeing German civilians and POWs are cut off from the main force and holed up in Potsdam, which the Soviets lay siege to throughout the duration of the war.


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Beryl Wayne Sprinkel

Raised on a farm near Richmond, Missouri, Sprinkel was a member of the 41st Armored Division, which led the attack that penetrated and defeated the German offensive near Celles, Belgium, in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II.

Combat Engineering Corps

In the 1973 Yom Kippur War the combat engineering battalions attached to Ariel Sharon's armored division bridged the Suez Canal during "Operation Knights of Heart", while carrying tanks and paratroopers across the canal with Gillois amphibious tank-carriers.

Ernest N. Harmon

He later accepted command of the 1st Armored Division after the relief of General Orlando Ward.

Fredendall was barely on speaking terms with his 1st Armored Division commander, Orlando Ward, who had repeatedly complained to his superiors of the dangers of separating his division into weaker combat commands for use in various sectors of the front.

Fox at the Front

On February 18, a reconnaissance team from the US 19th Armored Division ambushes a train going out of Ettersburg.

Fulda Gap

The 3rd Armored Division was also reinforced with an organic attack helicopter wing, and was the first military unit to deploy the attack helicopter Boeing AH-64 Apache in 1987.

George Haas, Jr.

He joined the United States Army in the Second World War and served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 6th Armored Division.

Intelligence dissemination management

In the Louisiana Maneuvers of 1940, George S. Patton moved an armored division with unprecedented speed, eventually capturing the commander of the opposing army, Ben Lear.

Kantemirovsky

4th Guards Kantemirovskaya Tank Division, an elite armored division of the Russian Ground Forces

Maritza Sáenz Ryan

Sáenz Ryan was assigned to the 1st Armored Division Artillery in Nuremberg, West Germany.

Multi-National Division - Baghdad

Following the Iraq War troop surge of 2007, most of the brigades' troops were dispersed at battalion- and company-level "combat outposts" and "joint security stations." The headquarters of MND-B was previously provided by HQ 1st Armored Division (2003–2004), HQ 1st Cavalry Division (2004–2005), HQ 3rd Infantry Division (2005–2006), 4th Infantry Division (2006) and 1st Cavalry Division (2007).

Tanks of the U.S. in the Cold War

Two battalions detached from the 2nd Armored Division at Fort Hood Texas, the 6th Medium and 64th Heavy Tank Battalions, were fully equipped with M46 Patton tanks.

William A. Connelly

In June 1975, he became Sergeant Major of the Seventh Army Training Command Grafenwöhr and in July 1976, became Sergeant Major of the 1st Armored division at Ansbach.