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3RD ARMORED DIVISION — COMBAT COMMAND A
3rd Armored “Spearhead” Division, Fort Knox • Post–World War II Training Division (1949) •

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Document Overview:
Published by Army and Navy Pictorial Publishers of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this pictorial yearbook (c. 1949) records the 3rd Armored Division after it was brought back on 15 July 1947 at Fort Knox, Kentucky, as a basic training division. It opens with messages from Maj. Gen. William G. Livesay and Maj. Gen. Roderick R. Allen, the division staff, the meaning of the Spearhead patch, and a short combat history. That history runs from Normandy to Dessau and records 2,214 men killed in action, 7,451 wounded and 76,000 prisoners taken. The book then covers Fort Knox and the recruit’s training cycle: processing, physical training, the M1 rifle, the Salt River assault course, bivouac and combat formations. It closes with officer portraits and company-by-company photo rosters for the 7th Medium Tank, 13th Armored Infantry, 54th Armored Field Artillery and 83rd Reconnaissance Battalions of Combat Command A. This is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original book.

Campaigns: World War II history: Normandy, St. Lô breakthrough, Falaise-Argentan Pocket, Mons, Siegfried Line, Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge), Cologne, Paderborn and the Ruhr Pocket, Nordhausen, Dessau. Postwar: basic training at Fort Knox (1947–1949).

Commanders: Maj. Gen. William G. Livesay (Commanding, The Armored Center, Fort Knox); Maj. Gen. Roderick R. Allen (Commanding, 3rd Armored Division); Brig. Gen. R. E. Williamson (Assistant Division Commander); Col. Francis T. Bonsteel (Chief of Staff); Col. Charles P. Bixel (Combat Command A); Col. T. S. Riggs (Combat Command B); Col. John H. Evans (Division Artillery); Maj. Michael Baymor (7th Medium Tank Battalion); Lt. Col. Harry D. Easton, Jr. (13th Armored Infantry Battalion); Lt. Col. Leon K. Kurland (54th Armored Field Artillery Battalion); Lt. Col. Charles F. Leonard, Jr. (83rd Reconnaissance Battalion). Wartime: Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose; Brig. Gen. Doyle O. Hickey

Division newspaper: unknown

Table of Contents
Message from the Commanding General, The Armored Center
Greetings from the Commanding General, Third Armored Division
Major General Roderick R. Allen
Division Staff and Special Staff
The Patch
The Third Armored Division in World War Two
Fort Knox, Kentucky — Home of the Third Armored Division
Post Scenes
In the Division Area
The Division on Parade
Beginning a New Life in the Third Armored Division
Physical Training
Transition and Assault Course, Salt River Range
Bivouac
Combat Formations
Combat Command A in Review
Combat Command B in Action
Division Artillery in Action
Officer Personnel, Combat Command A
7th Medium Tank Battalion
13th Armored Infantry Battalion
54th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
83rd Reconnaissance Battalion
Headquarters Detachment, Combat Command A
Company A, 7th Medium Tank Battalion
Company B, 7th Medium Tank Battalion
Company C, 7th Medium Tank Battalion
Company D, 7th Medium Tank Battalion
Company A, 13th Armored Infantry Battalion
Company B, 13th Armored Infantry Battalion
Company C, 13th Armored Infantry Battalion
Company D, 13th Armored Infantry Battalion
Battery A, 54th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
Battery B, 54th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
Battery C, 54th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
Service Battery, 54th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
Company A, 83rd Reconnaissance Battalion
Company B, 83rd Reconnaissance Battalion
Company C, 83rd Reconnaissance Battalion
Company D, 83rd Reconnaissance Battalion

“The Third Armored Division ‘Spearhead’ was forged in Louisiana and tempered in the hedgerows of Normandy.”
— “The Third Armored Division in World War Two”