• 1st Armored Division "Old Ironsides" landings in North Africa in Operation Torch and suffers a major defeat in step Kasserine. Then landed at Anzio and spends the war in Italy.
• 2nd Armored Division "Hell on Wheels": Join the Torch landings, but then remains in reserve. Lands and fight in Sicily and is removed to Britain. Moved to Normandy successfully participating in the breakdown of the operation Cobra. Involved in the Ardennes and the Ruhr pocket.
• 3rd Armored Division "Spearhead" In Great Britain going to Normandy in time to play in Cobra. It was the first to alcanzr the Siegfried Line. Is involved in the Battle of the Bulge and then held the Ruhr.
• 4th Armored Division Arrives in France for release in Cobra. Nickname did not even called themselves "Patton's Best". Always fought in Patton's 3rd Army and is among the best American units of the war.
• 5th Armored Division "Victory" was also released in Cobra and the subsequent race to the Seine. Participates in the bloody Hurtgen Forest fighting came to Elba and
• 6th Armored Division "Super Sixth" Cobra is also his baptism of fire and, as the 4 th, is always with Patton. Participate in the counter of the Ardennes and is the lowest division suffers.
• 7th Armored Division "Lucky Seventh" is misused Initially distributing its entirety. In the Ardennes stands in defense of St. Vith. After Ruhr bag reaches the Elbe in April.
• 8th Armored Division "Thundering Herd" Do not enter combat until January 45, at the end of the Ardennes.
• 9th Armored Division "Phamton" The Ardennes is their baptism, their CC's spread. His most notable is the capture of the Remagen bridge.
• 10th Armored Division "Tiger" comes directly from the U.S. in November. Is trapped in besieged Bastogne struggle with the "airborne." Llegra to the Alps at the end of the war.
• 11th Armored Division "Thunderbolt" comes to Holland in December to participate in the Ardennes. In the final advance reaches Austria.
• 12th Armored Division "Hellcats" Until November fails to France, where he is assigned to the 7th Army in fighting in Alsace. It occupies the south of Germany.
• 13th Armored Division "The Black Cats" c in January. Do not enter combat until March, with the war almost over.
• 14th Armored Division "Liberator" comes directly but also in October. Is assigned to the 7th Army in Alsace.
16th Armored Division
• Log in battle three days before the end of the war.
• 20th Armored Division went into battle only for 8 days.
Consulted:
Osprey - Battle Orders 003.
Europe
U.S. armored divisions 1943-45.
Wikipedia.
Tanks.
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