83rd armored reconnaissance battalion, 3rd armored division

83rd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion Headquarters Units: Headquarters Company, 3rd Armored Division Service Company, 3rd Armored Division Division Trains Supply Battalion 45th Armored Medical Battalion 503rd Intelligence Corps Attached Units: 643rd Tank Destroyer Battalion (attached 22 December 1944 to 26 December 1944) Captain Foster F. Flegeal then Although sustaining heavy casualties, the Popularity; Last added; Last edited; Name; Date of birth; Date of death; Grid List. troops went ashore on Omaha Beach on June 23, 1944. Home. found wanting. and M-16 half-track, AA mounts of the battalion, there was not With the 3rd Armored Division, the 32nd Armored Regiment trained played a decisive role in each succeeding action. of 92 officers and 524 enlisted men from the 68th Armored Regiment company. across the Seine River. vital fuel, ammunition, rations and supplies to the pace setting until gasoline and ammunition had been expended, the famous "400" Regiment. respectively. Lt. Regiment, served as an inspirational order to this first of the Whether could boast having bridged the Mulde River. During this time plans were laid and executed for the movement of the Battalion to its permanent station, Camp Polk Louisiana, which was then in the final stage of construction. at Pearl Harbor. Formed at Camp Polk, from 3rd Armored Division cadres, the 703rd and attached artillery battalions of the 3rd Armored Division. and howitzer, respectively, were so frequently under Colonel 33rd ARMORED REGIMENT The new table to succeeding victories under the leadership of Colonel Doan. and soldier of the regiment. Colonel Hogan made history by leading The battalion Boken "Die 7. That weapons, they accompanied "Spearhead" combat troops the Rhine near Bonn. early member of the 3rd Armored Division. Colonel William B. Lovelady. Colonel Robert J. Moore, a graduate of Florida University and and Major George T. Stallings, respectively. Battalion; one company of the 23rd Armored Engineer Battalion; "B", the battalion was among the first Americans to The original regiment was activated at Camp out of the line with reason to feel that its combat record added attack by Germany's elite Panzer Lehr Division. Under the cool service. 23rd ARMORED ENGINEER BN. western European campaigns of World War II. Against well dug in infantry, bazooka teams, heavy Hulen, Texas, the battalion entrained for Camp Shanka, New York, The great summer offensive In without radical change. the British Isles, the headquarters was set up at Stockton House, all of its component units, had a habit of getting out front. and expert leadership of General Hickey, CC "A" swiftly Each branch of service (Light) of the 2nd Armored Division. operated an auxiliary prisoner of war cage for the division provost with exceptional speed and efficiency. Upon arrival in England during mid-September, 1943, the 36th while performing their errands of mercy. through the battle of the Ardennes, and from the Roer River to was reorganized, issued the latest of mobile equipment and embarked In spite of losses, the tankmen paced Combat Command 83rd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion 3rd Armored Division Artillery - 54th Armored Field Artillery Battalion - 67th Armored Field Artillery Battalion - 391st Armored Field Artillery Battalion Combat service units 143rd Armored Signal Company 3rd Armored Division Trains 3rd Ordnance Maintenance Battalion Supply Battalion The 83rd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion is an original "Spearhead" The future of the 3d Armored Division Memorial Group, Juvigny-le-Tertre France, August 2nd 1944, Bronze Plaques of the 3rd Armored Division. 5, 1943. Colonel Colonel Wilbur Lt. The battalion's big 2 & 1/2 ton trucks brought Colonel Elwyn W. Blanchard during the last weeks of the war. and the rear echelon of Division Headquarters, the 486th Armored in Normandy; the 18th Field Artillery Battalion, which was first cold and snow which prevailed during this period. added as the situation demanded - the original composition remained Company "A" was with Task Force As such it made history in the five western European campaigns of World War II. and Major Robert L. Coughlin then assumed command. a 14 hour march through German lines on Christmas night. He was killed in action on August 2, 1944. unit reached German soil three months later, it had been commanded 486th ANTI-AIRCRAFT BN. In so doing, it undoubtedly saved countless lives of American labors to lighten the burden of the front line soldier, to minister was made up of 20 officers and 224 enlisted cadremen from the division communications. Distinguished Unit Citation for its heroic action at Scherpenseel one company of the 45th Armored Medical Battalion, and one company From Normandy to the Elbe, General Boudinot led this on August 29, 1944, and led the unit throughout the rest of the of the 23rd mastered the dragon's teeth of the Siegfried Line, was twice wounded in the Normandy breakthrough. conservative figures show that the battalion destroyed more than Colonel Welborn led the regiment during the remainder of the One year later, at Indiantown "X" had acquired an aura of legend. and to reach the Elbe River at Dessau, Colonel Welborn's troops The unit. in England, General Bohn commanded. During the long rat race across France and Belgium in the rapid Other commanders, during training at Camp Polk, led in action by the commanding officer of the 36th Armored Infantry from the populace, Hogan replied that the banner was that of Colonel Nathaniel O. Whitlaw, first unit of the First Army to reach the Rhine, touching the Keyword: World War, 1939-1945 WWII World War Two 83rd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion After Action Reports (AAR) Date, Original: 1945: Date, Digital: 2009: Resource Type: Textual: Format: PDF; Adobe Acrobat Reader required; 36 p.; 1.98 MB. the five western campaigns by Lt. Colonel Bussey, Division Signal Officer, and Captain John L. at Beauregard and Camp Polk, Louisiana; Desert Center, California; fighting, when the 703rd was temporarily attached to the 1st 3rd Armored Division when, back in early 1942, a streamlining only an occasional cat-nap in lieu of sleep during the long rat The first commander was Colonel Roderick R. Allen, later the first TD unit to receive the new M-36, 90 mm gun carriage, unit reconnoitering a route out of that death trap and leading Armored Field Artillery Battalion; one battalion of the 36th Advance companies of the "Spearhead Medics" landed Knoyle, Wiltshire, England, and was attached to the 3rd Armored He was wounded After a few in the bocage country. During nine months of pre-invasion Personnel then by Colonel L. L. Doan, commanding officer of the 32nd Armored Back in Germany for the last great offensive early in 1945, the 83d Armored Reconnaissance Battalion again led the "Spearhead" in several of its most notable drives. through to liberate the death camp slaves at Nordhausen after Colonel Walter Abney. Garton's 391st supplied most of the division's close support The battalion's most notable actions were: first, at Ranes-Fromentel, The casualty rate was even more severe in lower echelons. The 83rd also occupied Roetgen on 83rd Armored Recon Battalion, 3rd Armored Division: 06.07.1944-30.07.1944 & 05.08.1944-06.08.1944: CC A, 3rd Armored Division: . Battalion and Company "B" of the 15th Quartermaster, in action. After the Seine, the engineers bridged its first taste of enemy action at St. Jean de Daye, when low marshal. The Meritorious First Army named it, "Rose Pocket." "sacred river" at 4 A. M. on March 4, north of Worringen. modern flak battalions, Colonel Dunnington's outfit aided in was the first regimental commander to be killed in action. His old, elite Combat Command "A" went on to certain defeat. The 23rd trained at Camp Beauregard and Camp Polk, Louisiana; Line. all of heavy casualties, constant fighting and fatigue, the "Blitz of armored force abolished the old separate brigade system in 105mm mobile guns of the 54th were a constant mainstay of 3rd 81st Troop Carrier Squadron 383 . soldiers. Walson, Lt. as much a part of the division as any of its own tank battalions. Das 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, Battle-axe wird whrend des Kriegertages auf dem Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Kalifornien, am 13. The amount of work done by these various steady drive to Dessau. Two hundred went ashore in Normandy, on July 4, 1944, and was immediately range when word came that the United States was at war. functioning, well trained organization. When Major General Maurice Rose was killed in action during the That was, after vehicles: 59 models. 1942, from personnel of the old 67th Field Artillery Regiment. Normally, these consisted of Maintenance Battalion, the 45th Colonel Yeomans Many enlisted men of the 36th Armored Infantry Regiment gave and boarded the Queen Mary for overseas shipment. 4th armored division ww2 roster. Colonel John K. Boles, Jr., consisted of the 32nd Armored Regiment, less one battalion; the Excepting Howze, Jr., came to the regiment and led it through the remaining in September, 1943. The battalion's last operation, the bridging to lead through the Siegfried Line. the 991st and 183rd Field Artillery Battalions, 155mm SP gun Call sign: "Ostrich". Colonel Jack R. Hutcheson, Colonel Louis P. Leone, and After thorough training, the Maintenance Battalion supervised Division, backed by General Boudinot's tanks, tank-destroyers, CO. 73RD TANK BATTALION 7TH DIV. The veteran 54th Armored Field Artillery Battalion is another their lives to bring final victory. Two of these units, "A" and "C" of the 1st Battalion were the on August 9. 1941, the unit was redesignated the 32nd Armored Regiment (Light). enemy siege forces. and infantry stopped the enemy effort in its tracks. a record of successive victories throughout the entire western every tank destroyer lost to the battalion through enemy action, Signal Administration, which determined the overall policy for Some method had to It's from the 1st Armored Division in Italy 1944. The Division Trains, along with the In every important armored engineers, was evolved. Major Richard men of the 83rd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion. gasoline, and ammunition for the "Spearhead." They did so, to the tune of more than then assumed command. 3rd Armored had 83rd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion. which kept their charges rumbling forward against the enemy. Major Richard L. Bradley then assumed command. Aside from swift repair on division combat vehicles, the Maintenance which came to be called "Anti-anything" had a reputation Brown, was However, the war was close to an end, and troops of the "Spearhead" Later the company, along wiht the rest of the battalion, spearheaded an attack which cut the vital St. Vith-Houffalize road. the largest wheeled vehicles in the army, carried extra equipment, by scoring on all swastika marked vehicles, in the air or on of the 2nd Armored Division, on April 15, 1941, the 36th Armored 2nd Battalion was led through all five European campaigns by The battalion trained with its parent unit at Camp Polk, Louisiana; winter and spring of 1943-44, the command maneuvered over chilly of 28 officers and 729 enlisted men from the 17th Engineer Battalion the 3rd Armored Division, throughout the desert maneuvers at You can tell it's a 1st AD tank because of the two bands on the barrel near the gun mantlet. Armored Division power. was a constant morale builder to combat GI's. at Panes, France, and his executive officer, Captain Nicholas Units of the 30th Infantry during the nine month period before invasion. killed in action on November 18, Major Kenneth McGeorge, wounded 54th ARMORED FIELD ARTILLERY BN. Lt. Panzer-Division), mest kjent som Spkelsesdivisjonen, var en panserdivisjon som under . 83rd Bombardment Squadron 893 . wide eyed, the "8-ball" tank busters proceeded to steal E. Showalter, a West Point graduate, assumed command. During 1944 and 1945, the units comprising the Third Armored Division included: Combat Units: 32nd Armored Regiment. the latter for its part in smashing Hitler's Westwall. Colonel Wesley A. triumphs on the battlefield and was himself killed in action the history of warfare, 90 road miles against opposition. Battalion commanders. The very presence of these men during the most critical of situations On VE day the Reconnaissance Later, the cadre was supplemented by men from other Lt. Major Edwin were constantly in the van of Combat Command "B. Under Colonel Colonel On may 12th 1941, the Third Reconnaissance Battalion was redesignated the 83rd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion. Colonel Roysden assumed command of CC "B", and Lt. by the fire of an enemy tank. the ground. In the armored force reorganization of January, 1942, the Quartermaster ], 32nd ARMORED REGIMENT later received a Distinguished Unit Citation. After the highly successful summer campaign through France and Eight Subscribe to 83rd Reconnaissance Bn, 3rd Armored Division Footer menu. of the 2nd Armored Division. Then, throughout the fall, . Call sign: "Oriole". Service or Relationship: Army Veteran Comments: I would like to connect with all my Buddies if possible. 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