2nd Armored Division (United States)
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2nd Armored Division |
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 Badge of the 2nd US Panzer Division "Hell on Wheels" |
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| active | 1940 to 1992 |
| Country |
 United States
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| Armed forces | United States Armed Forces |
| Armed forces | United States Army |
| Branch of service | tank |
| Type | Armored Division |
| structure | Outline 1980s |
| Strength | Should: 15,000+ |
| Nickname | "Hell on Wheels" |
| Colours | Blue, red, gold, black |
| Butcher | Second World War |
| Commanders | |
| list of | Commanders |
| Important commanders |
George S. Patton George Patton IV Ernest N. Harmon Edward H. Brooks |
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The 2nd Armored Division ( German 2nd Armored Division , nicknamed Hell on Wheels , hell on wheels ) was an armored division of the US Army . The division played an important role during the invasion of North Africa and Sicily during World War II . Also with the liberation of France , Belgium and the Netherlands and the occupation of the German Empire . During the Cold War the division was stationed in Fort Hood , Texas , but a reinforced brigade was stationed in Garlstedt , West Germany . After participating in the Gulf War, the division was dissolved in 1995 .
history
Second World War
The 2nd Armored Division was formed on July 15, 1940 in Fort Benning , Georgia . Their first formations were the 66th Infantry Regiment (light tank regiment), 67th Infantry Regiment (medium tank regiment) and the 68th Infantry Regiment (light tank regiment). Its first commanding officer was Major General Charles L. Scott and Colonel George S. Patton, Jr. , the latter being entrusted with the training of the tank soldiers. Scott was given command of the US 1st Armored Corps in November 1940 and Patton became division commander. In February 1942 Major General Willis D. Crittenberger took over the division command.
The 2nd Armored Division was designed as a heavy armored division. It consisted of two tank regiments of four medium tank battalions each and two light tank battalions of three companies each. Together with the 3rd Panzer Division , it maintained its organization during the Second World War. The 14 other US tank divisions were restructured into "light" tank divisions with three tank battalions, each with three "medium" tank companies and one light tank company. Both types each had an infantry component of three mechanized battalions, although the heavy divisions maintained the organizational form of the "armored infantry regiment". The division's core units were the 41st Panzer Infantry Regiment, the 66th Panzer Regiment, the 67th Panzer Regiment, the 17th Panzer Engineer Battalion, the 82nd Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion and the 142nd Panzer Telecommunication Company. The 82nd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion was known as the "eyes and ears" of the 2nd Armored Division. The 2nd Panzer Division had three artillery battalions at its disposal: (14th FArtBtl, 78th FArtBtl and 92nd FArtBtl). The division also had support forces, including the 2nd Ordnance Maintenance Battalion, the 2nd Supply Battalion, the 48th Armored Medical Battalion, and military police.
Front opening in North Africa
Parts of the division were among the first US troops to undertake offensive ground combat missions in the European and Mediterranean theater of war during World War II . The 2nd US Armored Division (Major General Ernest N. Harmon) operated together with the 1st US Armored Division in North Africa . Together with the 1st, 3rd, 9th and 34th US Infantry Divisions, they were part of the Western Task Force in Operation Torch , which landed on November 8, 1942 in Casablanca in French Morocco . The 2nd US Armored Division was not involved in combat operations in North Africa, but had occupation and training tasks. In April 1943, Maj. Gen. Harmon gave command of the division to Maj. Gen. Hugh Joseph Gaffey. In preparation for the planned sea landing in Sicily , the division was trained for amphibious operations.
Operation Husky
As a reserve of the Western Task Force for Operation Husky , the 2nd US Armored Division landed on July 10, 1943 in support of the 1st US Infantry Division at the Battle of Gela . Then the 2nd US Armored Division entered action on July 21, 1943 on the second landing in Licata , Sicily, after the more famous previous landing of the 3rd US Infantry Division on July 10, 1943. The 2nd US Armored Division, which worked closely with paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division , then fought its way to the Sicilian capital of Palermo . On the way there, the 2nd US Armored Division took thousands of Italian prisoners of war. The fighting in Sicily ended on August 17, 1943. The 2nd US Armored Division received its first World War II Medal of Honor for Sergeant Gerry H. Kisters in the short campaign. The association suffered relatively minor losses. During the campaign, the division was under the command of the 7th US Army under Lieutenant General George S. Patton, who had previously been the commander of the 2nd US Armored Division. Soon after, the 2nd US Armored Division was relocated to Great Britain in preparation for the Allied invasion of Normandy and remained there until June 1944. In April 1944, the division received a new commander, Major General Edward H. Brooks, a proven World War I veteran .
Landing in Normandy
On June 9, 1944, three days after the first landings in Normandy, the 2nd US Armored Division was operating on the Cotentin Peninsula and later formed the right flank of the Operation Cobra attack . A little later, the 2nd US Armored Division landed on Omaha Beach . At Roncey there were fights with the Waffen SS Division “Das Reich” and the 17th SS Panzer Grenadier Division “Götz von Berlichingen” , whereupon the German units lost a large part of their armored equipment. At La Chapelle, the US artillery destroyed a large part of the German tank unit with over 700 projectiles. The losses suffered by the Germans were enormous, with 7,370 victims to 914 allies (ratio 8: 1). On the other hand, the US 2nd Armored Division lost 49 tanks. On September 8, 1944, the 2nd US Armored Division reached the Albert Canal in Belgium. She crossed the German border at Sittard on September 18, 1944 to take up defensive positions near Geilenkirchen . On October 3rd, again under the command of Major General Harmon, the division launched an attack on the Siegfried Line from Marienberg , broke through, crossed the Wurm River and captured the village of Puffendorf on November 16, 1944 and November 28, 1944 Barmen .
Rhine campaign
The 2nd US Panzer Division had taken positions along the Rur when they were ordered to contribute to the counterattack of the German Ardennes offensive . The 2nd US Panzer Division fought in East Belgium and prevented the German 5th Panzer Army from penetrating US lines. In January 1945, the front arch should be reduced. In addition, the 2nd US Armored Division fought in the forest of the Ardennes in deep snow and cleared the area from Houffalize to the Ourthe River of enemy forces. The German 2nd Panzer Division was in its original deployment on the Meuse . Mechanized units of this armored division ran out of fuel in Celles, whereupon they were destroyed by the 2nd US Armored Division and the British 29th Armored Brigade. After a short break in February 1945, the division crossed the Rhine on March 27, 1945 and was the first US division to later reach the Elbe in Schönebeck on April 11, 1945 . On April 20, 1945, the advance on the Elbe was stopped and in July 1945 the division marched into the capital Berlin as the first US unit .
Members of the division were awarded 9,369 medals. Including several Silver Stars and Purple Hearts .
The losses amounted to 5,864 men, 981 of them killed (KIA - killed in action), 4,557 wounded, 60 missing and 266 prisoners of war.
Interwar period
After a brief period of occupation in Germany, the division returned to Fort Hood, Texas, in 1946 to reorganize. The 2nd US Panzer Division then returned to West Germany as part of the 7th US Army between 1951 and 1957 , until it was part of the III. US Corps returned to Fort Hood. During its stationing in Germany in 1952 as part of the 7th US Army, the 2nd US Armored Division was under the command of General Williston Palmer in Stuttgart-Vaihingen .
Vietnam War
In the Vietnam War , only parts of the US 2nd Armored Division fought, not the entire unit. These included the 1 / 50th Infantry, 2 / 1st Cavalry , 1 / 40th Field Artillery, and 1 / 92nd Field Artillery. The division included the "Fort Hood Three", a group of three crew ranks who refused to begin their military service in Vietnam in 1966 .
Cold War
One part of the division spent the next 35 years at Fort Hood, and the other part of the division did active service in Europe during the Cold War. Their main role was to prepare for the defense of NATO to conduct heavy tank battles against the Warsaw Pact forces . The 2nd US Panzer Division was an essential part of the REFORGER units, which consisted of ten divisions, which could be relocated from overseas to Central Europe within a very short time in the event of a Soviet threat to NATO. These REFORGER exercises took place regularly from 1967 to 1988 . The division's “maneuver brigades”, which were deployed almost annually in the National Training Center to face an opposing force that emulated Soviet main weapon systems and tactics. However, with the end of the Cold War and the changed threat from the Warsaw Pact, the US Army began to reduce its combat units. The 2nd US Armored Division was supposed to be inactivated in the spring of 1990 .
In 1975 the 3rd Brigade of the 2nd US Armored Division was relocated to West Germany and subordinated to the NATO Army Group NORTHAG . The brigade received additional units of army aviators , engineers , military reconnaissance , medical services and supplies. The 2nd US Armored Division was appointed Forward Division. The main task of the association in the V case of an armed conflict with the Warsaw Pact was either to provide airfields and staging areas for the III. To secure US corps or to take GDP positions directly on the inner-German border and to act as a blocking force of the NATO armed forces. From 1975 to 1978 , the brigade headquarters was in Grafenwöhr , together with the rotating tank and artillery battalions and the supporting engineer and cavalry units. Two rotating infantry battalions were stationed in Hohenfels and Vilseck . The six-month rotations lasted until 1978, just before the stationing in permanent garrisons in northern Germany .
Division of troops in Garlstedt 1978
- Hq / Hq Co, 2nd Armd Div (Fwd), Garlstedt, relocated to Garlstedt at the end of September 1978
- 498th Spt Bn, Garlstedt
- 3rd Bn, 41st Inf (Mech), Garlstedt, from Wildflecken September 1978; replaced by 1st Bn, 12th Cav
- 2nd Bn, 50th Inf (Mech), Garlstedt, from Hohenfels; moved to Garlstedt in October
- 2nd Bn, 66th Arm, Garlstedt, moved to Garlstedt on January 28, 1979; replaced by 3-67th arm (Graf)
- 1st Bn, 14th FA, Garlstedt, moved to Garlstedt on February 10, 1979; replaced by 1-16th FA (Graf)
- C-Trp, 2nd Sq, 1st Cav, Garlstedt, relocated to Garlstedt on January 11, 1979; replaced by F Trp (Graf)
- D-Company, 17th Engr Bn, Garlstedt, relocated to Garlstedt on January 11, 1979
Division of troops in 1980
- Hqs Company, 2nd Armored Division (F), Clay-Kaserne, Garlstedt
- 498th Spt Bn, Clay-Kaserne, Garlstedt
- 2nd Bn, 50th Infantry (Mech), Clay-Kaserne, Garlstedt, 1983 reclassified to 4th Bn, 41st Infantry (Mech)
- 3rd Bn, 41st Infantry (Mech), Clay-Kaserne, Garlstedt
- 2nd Bn, 66th Armored Regiment, Clay-Kaserne, Garlstedt
- 1st Bn, 14th Field Artillery, Clay-Kaserne, Garlstedt, 1983 reclassified to 4th Bn, 3rd Field Artillery
- C-Trp, 2nd Sq, 1st Cav, Clay-Kaserne, Garlstedt, 1984 replaced by D-Trp, 2-1st Cav (Air)
- D-Company, 17th Engineers Bn, Clay-Kaserne, Garlstedt
From 1978 to 1993 , the 2nd US Armored Division (Forward) was stationed in the Lucius D. Clay barracks in Garlstedt , about 24 kilometers from Bremen . In the course of its history, up to 20,000 men were stationed there. The brigade was officially designated as the 2nd US Armored Division (Forward) on July 25, 1978 during a military ceremony in Grafenwoehr. The Lucius D. Clay barracks was a new military facility near the village of Garlstedt, which cost about $ 140 million to build, of which the Federal Republic of Germany contributed half. The 3rd Brigade consisted of approximately 3,500 soldiers and approximately 2,500 family members and civilian employees. The federal government had family houses built in the nearby town of Osterholz-Scharmbeck. In addition to troop barracks, a vehicle fleet, shooting range, repair and logistics facilities and a local training area, the facility in Garlstedt included a troop clinic, a post office, a library, a cinema and an officers 'and non-commissioned officers' association. The soldiers and family members of the division received radio and television broadcasts from the American Forces Network (AFN) Europe via the AFN partner stations in Bremerhaven . In April 1986 a Burger King restaurant was opened at the barracks .
The brigadier general of the 2nd US Armored Division represented a multiple command. In addition to commanding the heavy brigade, he also acted as commander of the III. US Corps (Forward) based in Maastricht , Netherlands , and thirdly as commander of all US armed forces in northern Germany, including the Garlstedt and Bremerhaven locations.
In the case of a combat mission of the III. U.S. Corps, the division commander would return to his appointment as deputy division commander for U.S. 2nd Armored Division operations. This contingency was practiced during the REFORGER exercises in 1980 and 1987. Brigadier-generals holding this position included James E. Armstrong, George R. Stotser, Thomas H. Tait, William F. Streeter, John C. Heldstab, and Jerry R. Rutherford.
The subordinate combat units of the 3rd Brigade initially consisted of the 3rd Battalion of the 41st Infantry Regiment, the 2nd Battalion of the 50th Infantry Regiment, the 2nd Battalion, the 66th Panzer Regiment ("Iron Knights"), the 1st Battalion. Battalion of the 14th Field Artillery Regiment and the C-Troop of the 2nd Squadron / 1st. U.S. cavalry regiment. In October 1983 , as part of a restructuring program of the US Army, the associations were renamed as 2-50 Infantry as 4-41 Infantry and 1-14 Field Artillery as 4-3 Field Artillery. Further subordinate units of the brigade were the 498th Support Battalion, the D-Company, the 17th Engineer Battalion and the 588th Intelligence Company. The brigade also had a military police platoon and an army aviation division. In 1986 the 3./41. Infantry Regiment returned to Fort Hood as part of the occupation and retention plan COHORT and was replaced by the 1./41. Replaced infantry regiment. In 1987 it was the 4th / 41st. Infantry returned to Fort Hood and was by the 3rd / 66th. Panzer Regiment ("Burt's Knights", named after Captain James M. Burt, who received the US Medal of Honor as a company commander in the 66th Panzer Regiment after the Battle of Aachen ). The heavily armored brigade of the 2nd US Armored Division (Forward) consisted of 116 M-1A1 Abrams main battle tanks and almost 70 M2 / 3 Bradley armored personnel carriers at that time .
equipment
The brigade was originally relocated to Germany with M60 Patton battle tanks and M113 armored personnel carriers . The 4th and 3rd field artillery had the M109 155 mm self-propelled howitzer at their disposal. In 1984 the 2./66. Tank regiment equipped with the Main Battle Tank (MBT) M1 Abrams . In 1985 the 3 / 41st Infantry and 4 / 41st Infantry converted to the M2 Bradley armored personnel carrier . In addition, the C Company / 2/1 Cavalry was replaced by an air cavalry force, D Company / 2/1 Cavalry, which was armed with AH-1S Cobra attack helicopters to increase the firepower on the battlefield .
Maneuvers and NATO competitions
The division took part in numerous major NATO exercises , including 1985 " Trutzige Sachsen ", " Crossed Swords 86 " and the relocation exercises " Return of Forces to Germany - REFORGER" in 1980 and 1987 . The subordinate units of the division used the NATO firing and maneuvering areas of the Bergen-Hohne military training area and every year the entire division was relocated to Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels (both in Bavaria ) for NATO tank comparison competitions. The 2nd US Armored Division (Forward) developed an excellent reputation during these missions.
Tank companies of the 2 / 66th and later the 3 / 66th took part in the biannual NATO tank comparison shooting, the Canadian Army Trophy (CAT), for NORTHAG teams. The CHARLIE Company of the 2nd / 66th fought for the trophy for the first time in 1983 . While a West German armored train won the competition in Bergen that year (PzBtl 293 and PzBtl 153 for CENTAG ), an armored train of the 2nd / 66th surprised the competition with good firing performance from their outdated M60A1 battle tanks, which use optical rangefinder technology that still uses from the time of the Second World War. This demonstrated the advantage of certain war experiences over modern technology. C Company 2 / 66th fought again for the CAT trophy in 1985 , and D Company 2 / 66th competed for NORTHAG in 1987 . In 1989 , C Company 3 / 66th won the competition. Participation in the CAT and achieving the maximum number of points was seen as a high performance incentive for the tank crews involved. The division operated a formal partnership with the Panzergrenadierbrigade 32 , Schwanewede . The 2nd US Armored Division also maintained friendly relations with the Dutch, Belgian and British NORTHAG armed forces and often conducted joint training with them in Bergen-Hohne.
First Gulf War
The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 hit the US military in their post-Cold War dismantling phase in Europe. The Division's 2nd Brigade could not be deployed as a whole because it was in the midst of its inactivation. Some units, such as the A 1 / 92nd Field Artillery, an MLRS rocket launcher unit, along with other units of the 1st Brigade, became known as the "Tiger Brigade", were outsourced for military action and placed under the command of Colonel John B. Sylvester. Saudi Arabia participated in Operation Desert Storm by supporting the United States Marine Corps (USMC) forces in their attack on Kuwait with heavy armor. The attack was led by 3 / 41st Infantry's Straight and Stalwart Battalion Task Force and 1/3 Field Artillery Battalion of the Tiger Brigade. The Tiger Brigade was credited with destroying 181 enemy tanks, 148 Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs), 40 artillery pieces, 27 AntiAir positions and 263 fallen Iraqi soldiers, with a further 4,051 opponents captured.
The 3rd Brigade of the 2nd US Armored Division, which was previously stationed in Germany, was relocated to Saudi Arabia in the fall of 1990 and acted as the third maneuver brigade of the 1st Infantry Division from Fort Riley , Kansas . One of the brigade's task forces, Task Force 1 / 41st Infantry, was the first coalition force to break through the Saudi Arabian border on February 15, 1991, and to be involved in direct and indirect firefights in Iraq on February 17, 1991. This task force was engaged in a six-hour battle to throw down the Iraqi initial defensive positions. She was originally charged with carrying out a reconnaissance mission against Iraqi reconnaissance units. The brigade fought in the Battle of 73 Easting together with the 1st (Mech) Infantry Division and the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment. You were responsible for the destruction of the Iraqi 18th 'Mech and 9th Tank Brigades of the Tawakalna Republican Guard and the Iraqi 26th Infantry Division. They played a key role in the annihilation of the 12th Armored Division, which destroyed no less than 80 combat vehicles. The brigade destroyed 60 Iraqi tanks and 35 infantry vehicles along the IPSA pipeline in what would later become known as the Battle of Norfolk. At the beginning of the third day of the ground offensive, the 2nd US Armored Division (Forward) was involved in the smashing of four Iraqi armored and mech. Brigades as well as two divisions involved. Between the armistice and the official end of the war in April 1991, the 2nd US Armored Division (Forward) took part in security operations to ensure peace in Kuwait. The division eventually moved to Saudi Arabia, where it built and operated three refugee camps for 22,000 Iraqi refugees near Raffia, Saudi Arabia. After the camp was handed over to the Saudi Arabian government, the unit was relocated to Germany.
The division's attack helicopter battalion, 1st battalion / 3rd battalion. Army Aviation Regiment, was relocated from Fort Hood to Saudi Arabia in the fall of 1990 and supported by the 1st US Cavalry Division (also stationed in Ft. Hood). The battalion was armed with Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopters. The battalion took part in various air strikes along the border region. The attack helicopters provided cover fire as ground forces advanced into Iraq. The 1st Battalion / 3. The Army Aviation Regiment was relocated to Saudi Arabia after the armistice, with two swarms stationed in Kuwait to provide refueling and armament services for battalion aircraft when hostilities resumed. In April 1991, the unit returned to Fort Hood, Texas, and resumed the inactivation that was interrupted when Iraq invaded Kuwait. It was decommissioned on September 16, 1991 and the regimental flag was handed over to the sister unit 3rd Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment based in Germany. The unit was transferred to Fort Campbell , Kentucky , in August 1991 and the 2nd Battalion was assigned to the 101st Army Aviation Regiment / 101st Airborne Division.
Decommissioning
After the Gulf War, the division went through a series of inactivations and renaming. Due to the restructuring of the US Army after the end of the Cold War, the division was removed from active service and had to be disbanded after more than 50 years of uninterrupted service. When relocated to Fort Hood in 1991, the Tiger Brigade and 1st Battalion of the 3rd Aviation Regiment that were left over from the 2nd Armored Division were merged into 3rd Brigade / 1st. Cavalry Division and 2nd Battalion / 101. Renamed Aviation Regiment. On September 1, 1991, the 2nd Panzer Division (Forward) in Germany was officially renamed the 2nd Panzer Division after the main elements of the 2nd Panzer Division in Fort Hood had been inactivated. Sergeant Michael L. Anderson was the last member of the US 2nd Armored Division. In his function he was a 74F (74F MOS / Army Computer Programmer) who was responsible for processing orders for all remaining members of the headquarters of the 2nd Armored Division. On September 1, 1991, he processed the final orders for himself and his commanding officer. In the summer and autumn of 1992 the 2nd Panzer Division was inactivated. The Lucius D. Clay barracks in Garlstedt was handed back to the federal government and was later to house the logistics school of the Bundeswehr and the headquarters of the general of the supply force.
In December 1992, the 5th (Mech) Infantry Division in Fort Polk , Louisiana was renamed the 2nd Armored Division. In 1993 the unit moved to Fort Hood. In December 1995, the 2nd Armored Division was renamed again, this time the 4th (Mech) Infantry Division, stationed in Fort Carson , Colorado . This officially ended the 55-year history of the 2nd Panzer Division. Several units historically associated with 2nd Armored Division, including battalions of 66th Armored Regiment and 41st Infantry Regiment, are currently part of 4th Infantry Division in Fort Carson, Colorado, 1st Armored Division in Fort Bliss , Texas, and the 172nd Infantry Brigade in Grafenwoehr, Germany.
The name of Lucius D. Clay was later reused for the Wiesbaden army airfield . Although inactivated, the U.S. Army's 2nd Armored Division, due to its numerous awards and long history, was listed as the inactive division with the fifth highest priority on the United States Army Center of Military History's line scheme. All of the division's flags and heraldry items were moved to the National Infantry Museum in Fort Benning, Georgia after they were inactivated. Should the US Army decide to activate further divisions in service in the future, it is assumed that the first new division will be the 9th US Infantry Division, the second the 24th US Infantry Division, and the third the 5th Infantry Division. US Infantry Division and the fourth the US 2nd Armored Division.
organization
- Division staff
- Service Company, Combat Command A and Combat Command B
- 41st Armored Infantry Regiment / 41. Mech. Infantry Regiment
- 66th Armored Regiment / 66. Panzer Regiment
- 67th Armor Regiment / 67th Panzer Regiment
- 17th Armored Engineer Battalion / 17. Panzer Pioneer Regiment
- 82nd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion / 82. Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
- 14th Armored Field Artillery Battalion / 14. Field Artillery Battalion
- 78th Armored Field Artillery Battalion / 78th Field Artillery Battalion
- 92nd Armored Field Artillery Battalion / 92. Field Artillery Battalion
- 142nd Armored Signal Company / 142. Telecommunications company
- 17th Armored Ordnance Battalion / 17. Resupply Battalion
- 14th Armored Quartermaster Battalion
- 48th Armored Medical Battalion / 48th San Battalion
- 2d Armored Division Artillery / Divisionsartillerie
- 2d Armored Division Trains
- Supply Battalion / Supply Battalion
- Military Police Platoon / Military Police Platoon
List of commanders
| Surname | Beginning of the appointment | End of appointment |
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| Charles L. Scott | July 1940 | November 1940 |
| George S. Patton, Jr. | November 1940 | January 1942 |
| Willis D. Crittenberger | January 1942 | July 1942 |
| Ernest N. Harmon | July 1942 | April 6, 1943 |
| Allen F. Kingman | April 1943 | May 5, 1943 |
| Hugh J. Gaffey | May 5, 1943 | March 17, 1944 |
| Virgil C. Syverson | August 23, 1940 | June 9, 1945 |
| Edward H. Brooks | March 17, 1944 | September 12, 1944 |
| Ernest N. Harmon | September 12, 1944 | January 19, 1945 |
| Isaac D. White | January 19, 1945 | June 8, 1945 |
| John H. Collier | June 8, 1945 | September 4, 1945 |
| John M. Devine | September 4, 1945 | March 24, 1946 |
| John W. Leonard | March 24, 1946 | October 1946 |
| Leland S. Hobbs | October 1946 | August 1947 |
| James G. Christiansen | September 1947 | June 28, 1949 |
| Albert C. Smith | June 28, 1949 | November 1, 1950 |
| Williston B. Palmer | unknown | November 24, 1951 |
| Charles K. Gailey, Jr. | November 24, 1951 | April 3, 1952 |
| George W. Read, Jr. | April 3, 1952 | April 1953 |
| Leander L. Doan | April 1953 | January 20, 1955 |
| Clark L. Ruffner | January 20, 1955 | April 5th 1956 |
| Conrad S. Babcock, Jr. | April 5th 1956 | June 1, 1957 |
| Briard Poland Johnson | June 1, 1957 | October 30, 1958 |
| Earle G. Wheeler | October 30, 1958 | April 1, 1960 |
| Edward G. Farrand | April 1, 1960 | July 1, 1961 |
| William HS Wright | July 1, 1961 | February 13, 1963 |
| Edwin H. Burba | February 13, 1963 | August 1964 |
| George R. Mather | September 1964 | July 1965 |
| John E. Kelly July | 1965 | 3rd July 1967 |
| Joseph A. McChristian | 3rd July 1967 | July 22, 1969 |
| Leonard C. Shea | July 22, 1969 | 1st November 1969 |
| Wendell J. Coats | 1st November 1969 | 3rd August 1971 |
| George G. Cantlay | 3rd August 1971 | July 16, 1973 |
| Robert L. Fair | July 16, 1973 | 5th August 1975 |
| George Patton IV | 5th August 1975 | 3rd November 1977 |
| Charles P. Graham | 3rd November 1977 | February 6, 1980 |
| Richard L. Prillaman | February 6, 1980 | July 1982 |
| John W. Woodmansee | July 1982 | 20th August 1984 |
| Richard Scholtes | 20th August 1984 | June 24, 1986 |
| Roger J. Price | June 24, 1986 | June 24, 1988 |
| Glynn C Mallory, Jr. | June 24, 1988 | June 1990 |
| Phillip Mallory July | 1990 | unknown |
| Jared L. Bate | September 1993 | May 7, 1994 |
| Robert S. Coffey | May 7, 1994 | December 15, 1995 |
Trivia
The war film Fury-Herz aus Stahl deals with the fictionalized fate of a tank crew of the 66th Armored Regiment in the last days of the war. In the episode "Battle of Bloody Gulch" in the Band of Brothers series , tanks of the 2nd US Armored Division attacked the battle at Manoir de Donville / Hill 30 on June 13, 1944.
References
See also
Web links
- 2nd Armored Division History (en.)
- 2nd Armored Division - Hell on Wheels
- 2nd Armored Division (Forward) USAREUR. (en.)
- Order of Battle of the US Army - WWII - ETO. 2d Armored Division. US Army Center of Military History. (en.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Link Tank Regiment
- ↑ Medium Tank Regiment
- ↑ Code name for the Allied invasion of Sicily
- ↑ 2nd Armored Division Battle Order Overlord (en.)
- ↑ 50th Infantry Regiment, Fort Benning, Georgia? Reorganized July 1, 1963 as 1st Battalion, 50th Infantry. Subordinated to the 2d Armored Division on September 1, 1967
- ↑ 50th Infantry Regiment, Fort Benning, Georgia? Reorganized July 1, 1963 as 1st Battalion, 50th Infantry. On 1. September 1967 the 2d Armored Division assumed
- ↑ 40th Field Artillery Regiment
- ^ 92nd Field Artillery Regiment
- ↑ Private First Class James Johnson, Jr. Private David A. Samas and Private Dennis Mora
- ↑ Operation Big Lift (en.)
- ↑ 2nd Armored Division (Forward) USAREUR. (en.)
- ^ Headquarters Company Division
- ↑ 2nd Armored Division (Forward) USAREUR. (en.)
- ↑ 2nd Armored Division in Garlstedt
- ↑ US Army in Northern Germany. "Army go home" someone wrote on a wall. Southgerman newspaper. January 14, 2017
- ↑ Army's COHORT plan keeps units together, builds morale (en.)
- ^ Band of Brothers: The 2D Marine Division and the Tiger Brigade in the Persian Gulf War. School of Advanced Military Studies. United States Army Command and General Staff College. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. 1995. (en.)
- ↑ Air defense missile systems
- ^ Military Occupational Specialty Code
- ↑ or tank artillery battalion?
- ↑ one move for a whole division?
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