Shoulder sleeve patch of the United States Army 10th Armored Division.

The 10th Armored Division (nicknamed Tiger Division) was an armored division of the United States Army in World War II. Shoulder sleeve patch of the 10th Armored Division File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Shoulder sleeve patch of the 10th Armored Division File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A Patch can refer to several different things: A piece of fabric. ... Symbol of the Polish 1st Legions Infantry Division in NATO code A division is a large military unit or formation usually consisting of around ten to twenty thousand soldiers. ... The United States Army is one of the armed forces of the United States and has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

History

The division, which served under General George S. Patton, was activated on 15 July 1942, at Fort Benning, Georgia. The 10th Armored Division entered France through the port of Cherbourg, 23 September 1944, and put in a month of training at Teurtheville, France, before entering combat. Leaving Teurtheville, 25 October, the Division moved to Mars-la-Tour, where it entered combat, 1 November, in support of the XX Corps, containing enemy troops in the area. In mid-November it went on the offensive, crossed the Moselle at Mailing, and drove to the Saar River, north of Metz. The Division was making preparations for the Third Army drive to the Rhine when it was ordered north to stop the German winter offensive, 17 December. The 10th held defensive positions against heavy opposition near Bastogne, Noville, and Bras. Resting briefly in early January, the 10th moved out again to defensive positions east of the Saar, south of the Maginot Line. On 20 February 1945 the Division returned to the attack, and took part in the clearing of the Saar-Moselle triangle. The Division then attacked north and captured Trier, 15 March. Driving through Kaiserlautern, it advanced to the Rhine, crossed the river at Mannheim, 28 March, turned south, captured Oehringen and Heilbronn, crossed the Rems and Fils Rivers, and reached Kirchheim, meeting waning resistance. The Division crossed the Danube, 23-25 April, and took Oberammergau. On April 27, the 10th Armored Division, along with the 103rd Infantry Division|103rd Infantry Division, liberated the Landsberg-Dachau concentration subcamp. In May, the 10th drove into the famed "Redoubt," and had reached Innsbruck when the war in Europe ended. General George Smith Patton Jr. ... July 15 is the 196th day (197th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 169 days remaining. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... Fort Benning is a United States Army base, located southwest of Columbus in Muscogee and Chattahoochee counties in Georgia and Russell County, Alabama It is part of the Columbus, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area. ... Cherbourg is a city of Normandy, in northwestern France, in the Manche département, of which it is a sous_préfecture. ... September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years). ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Mars-la-Tour is a commune of the Meurthe-et-Moselle département, in northeastern France. ... November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 60 days remaining. ... Moselle is a département in the northeast of France named after the Moselle River. ... Saar loop at Mettlach The Saar (French: Sarre) is a river, that rises in the Vosges mountains in Alsace with two headstreams (Red and White Saar) at the Donon, running through Lorraine and the Saarland, which was named after it. ... For other uses of Metz, see Metz (disambiguation) City motto: Si paix dedans, paix dehors (French: If peace inside, peace outside) City proper (commune) Région Lorraine Département Moselle (57) Mayor Jean-Marie Rausch Area 41. ... The US Third Army was first activated as a formation during the First World War. ... The River Rhine (Dutch: ; French: ; German: ; Italian: ; Romansh: ) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe at 1,320 kilometres (820 miles), with an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second. ... December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The coat of arms of the Bastogne municipality. ... Noville is a commune in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, located in the district of Aigle. ... Broadband Remote Access Server (B-RAS) is an application running on your router that: Aggregates the output from digital subscriber line access multiplexers (DSLAM) Provides user PPP sessions or IP over ATM sessions Enforces quality of service (QoS) policies Routes traffic into an ISP’s backbone network A DSLAM collects... The Maginot Line (IPA: [maÊ’ino], named after French minister of defence André Maginot) was a line of concrete fortifications, tank obstacles, machine gun posts and other defenses which France constructed along its borders with Germany and with Italy, in the light of experience from World War I, and... February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... Trier (French: ; Luxembourgish Tréier) is a city in Germany on the banks of the Moselle River. ... March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in leap years). ... Mannheim is a city in Germany. ... March 28 is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (88th in leap years). ... Rems-Murr is a district (Kreis) in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Fils is a 63 km long river in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Kirchheim may refer to several places: in Germany: Kirchheim unter Teck, a town in Baden-Württemberg Kirchheim am Neckar, a municipality in Baden-Württemberg Kirchheim am Ries, a municipality in Baden-Württemberg Kirchheim bei München, a municipality in Bavaria Kirchheim in Schwaben, a municipality in Bavaria... The Danube (ancient Danuvius, ancient Greek Istros) is the longest river of the European Union and Europes second-longest[3] (after the Volga). ... (Redirected from 23 April) April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ... April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). ... Oberammergau from the summit of Kofel Oberammergau is a village in Bavaria in Germany, most famous for its production of a passion play depicting the life and death of Jesus. ... April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... Memorial at the camp, 1997. ... In chemistry, concentration is the measure of how much of a given substance there is mixed with another substance. ... Innsbruck is a city in western Austria, and the capital of the federal state of Tyrol. ...

The division was inactivated on 13 October 1945, at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia. October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... Official language(s) English Capital Richmond Largest city Virginia Beach Area  Ranked 35th  - Total 42,793 sq mi (110,862 km²)  - Width 200 miles (320 km)  - Length 430 miles (690 km)  - % water 7. ...

External links

• TigerDivision.com
• Terrify and Destroy: The Story of the 10th Armored Division