David
Thu January 8, 2004 3:22pm
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Fifth Armored Division
Worn from 1 October 1941 to 15 March 1956
Tab "Victory"
Activated at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The division's designation is shown by the Arabic number five. The tab utilizes the unit's numerical designation in the "V" (for victory), which is the Roman numeral for five.
Campaigns:
WWII (Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, and Central Europe).
Decorations:
Luxembourg Croix de Guerre (streamer embroidered LUXEMBOURG).
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David
Thu January 8, 2004 3:22pm
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Sixth Armored Division
Worn from 15 February 1942 to 16 March 1956
Tab: "Super Sixth"
Activated at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The Arabic number six shows the division's designation. The history of the Super Sixth is brief, but their deeds were great and live on in the hearts of all patriotic Americans. Normandy, Muhlhausen, Buchenwald, and the Battle of the Bulge are inscribed for all time in the pages of this outfit's history, and the spirits of nearly five thousand soldiers killed or wounded bear witness to the unit's sacrifices in the cause of freedom. The Super Sixth gained fame for its ability to move and overcome enemy resistance rapidly and was credited with 272 days of combat but lost 4,670 men killed and wounded in five campaigns
Campaigns: WWII (Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe)
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David
Thu January 8, 2004 3:22pm
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Seventh Armored Division
Worn from 1 March 1942 to 15 November 1953
Tab: "Lucky Seventh"
Activated at Camp Polk, Louisiana. The Arabic number seven shows the division's designation. The units nickname is attributed to a remark made by Major General Alvin Gillem, commander II Armor Corps, who said, "the Seveth Armored Division is lucky to have trained with the Third Armored Division and lucky to have the man it does as its commanding general."
Campaigns: WWII (Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe)
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David
Thu January 8, 2004 3:22pm
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Eighth Armored Division
Worn from 1 April 1942 - 13 November 1945
Tab "Thundering Heard" nicknamed "Iron Snake"
Activated at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The Arabic number eight shows the division's designation. The tab is attributed to a remark made by a news correspondent who, after watching the Eighth Armored Division launch an attack across the Rhine River, said they looked like a "Thundering heard." The nickname: "Iron Snake" derives from an aerial observation of the division winding its way through the hills and valleys of Central Europe. From this perspective, the division looks like an "iron snake." Both inscriptions are unauthorized.
Campaigns:
WWII (Rhineland, Ardennes- Alsace, Central Europe).
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David
Thu January 8, 2004 3:22pm
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Ninth Armored Division
Worn from 5 May 1942 to 13 October 1945
Tab: "Phantom"
Worn from 1945- unknown Tab: "Remagen"
Activated at Fort Riley, Kansas. The Arabic number nine shows the division's designation. The tab for this version is credited to the Germans. On three separate occasions the Germansreported the Nonth had been destroyed and on all three occasions they were wrong- thus, the nickname. The inscription of theNinth changed from "Phantom" to "Remagen" after its uccess at the Remagen Bridge on the Rhine in 1945. This tab, "Remagen", commemorates the capture of the Ludendorf Bridge on 7 March 1945. This was the last major barrier protecting Germany from an allied push across the Rhine and its capture changed the course of the war.
Campaigns: WWII (Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe)
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David
Thu January 8, 2004 3:22pm
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Tenth Armored Division
Worn from 5 May 1942 to 13 October 1945
Tab: "Tiger"
Activated at Fort Benning, Georgia. The Arabic number ten shows the division's designation. The tab recalls the battle cry of the Tiger Division-"Terrify and Destroy", asthe Tigers"clawed and mauled their way through all of their enemies."
Campaigns: WWII (Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe)
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David
Thu January 8, 2004 3:22pm
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Eleventh Armored Division
Worn from 15 August 1942 to 31 August 1945
Tab: "Thunderbolt"
Activated at Camp Polk, Louisiana. The Arabic number eleven shows the division's designation. For veterans, the patch conjures up memories of freezing men in icy machines stopping the enemy attack at Bastogne. Places like Lutzkampen, Grosskampenberg, Fulda, Oberhof and the concentration camps at Mauthausen and Gusen are written large in their combat log.
Campaigns: SSII (Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, and Central Europe).
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David
Thu January 8, 2004 3:22pm
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Twelfth Armored Division
Worn from 15 September 1942 to 3 December 1945.
Tab "Hell Cat"
Activated at Camp Campbell, Kentucky. The division's designation is show by the Arabic number twelve. Credited with 102 days in combat, the Twelfth suffered over three thousand casualties. The performance of this outfit in places like Ludwigschafen, the Bulge, Wuerzberg and Schweinfurt seal their place in history.
Campaigns:
WWII (Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, and Central Europe.
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David
Thu January 8, 2004 3:22pm
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Thirteenth Armored Divisi
Worn from 15 October 1942 to 1 March 1952
Tab: "Black Cat"
Activated at Camp Beale, California. The Arabic number thirteen shows the division's designation. The word "Cat" in the nickname on the tab denotes caterpillar tractors, for which the tank is considerd an offspring and a black cat is a sign of bad luck to anyone crossing its path. In sixteen days of combat, the "Black Cats" suffered over one thousand casualties. Historic records tell us that in the battle for the city of Braunau, Austria, the victorious Thirteenth set up its headquarters in Adolf Hitler's birthplace.
Campaigns: WWII (Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe)
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David
Thu January 8, 2004 3:22pm
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Fourteenth Armored Divisi
Worn from 15 November 1942 to 16 September 1945
Tab: "Black Cat"
Activated at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas. The Arabic number fourteen shows the division's designation. The tab refers to the hundreds of thousands of POW's and slave laborers liberated by the division from Nazi concentration camps. During two campaigns and 167 days of combat, the men of the Liberator Division had freed an estimated 200,000 Allied prisoners of war and an additional 250,000 slave laborers and displaced persons with a loss of 2,690 killed and wounded.
Campaigns: WWII (Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe)
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David
Thu January 8, 2004 3:22pm
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Sixteenth Armored Divisio
Worn from 15 July 1943 to 15 October 1945
Tab: NONE
Activated at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas. The Arabic number sixteen shows the division's designation. The Sixteenth had no nickname since they arrived in Germany toward the end of the war and participated in only three days of actual combat. Perhaps this fact, with all due respect for the unit's courage and skill, justifies labeling them the "Lucky 16th."
Campaigns: WWII (Central Europe)
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David
Thu January 8, 2004 3:22pm
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Nineteenth Armored Divisi
Worn from 1 July 1946 to 20 August 1947
Tab: NONE
Activated at Los Angeles, California. The Arabic number nineteen shows the division's designation. The Sixteenth had no nickname since they were so short lived. The unit was redesignated as the 13th Armored Division because of the historical ties between California an the 13th Armored Division.
Campaigns: NONE
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David
Thu January 8, 2004 3:22pm
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Twentieth Armored Divisio
Worn from 15 March 1943 to 23 March 1953
Tab: NONE
Activated at Camp Campbell, Kentucky. The Arabic number twenty shows the division's designation. With the final surrender of Germany just weeks away, this fine unit took responsibility for crushing organized enemy resistance in the Bavarian city of Munich where, years earlier, Adolf Hitler had planned for the enslavement of Europe by the master race.
Campaigns: WWII (Central Europe)
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David
Thu January 8, 2004 3:22pm
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Twenty-first Armored Divi
Worn from 12 November 1946 to 1 March 1952
Tab: NONE
Activated at Detroit, Michigan. The Arabic number twenty-one shows the division's designation.
Campaigns: NONE
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David
Thu January 8, 2004 3:22pm
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Twenty-second Armored Div
Worn from 24 June 1947 to 1 March 1952
Tab: NONE
Activated at Houston, Texas. The Arabic number twenty-two shows the division's designation.
Campaigns: NONE
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