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81st Armor Regiment
The 81st Armor Regiment currently has two active battalions, the 1st and 3rd. The 1st Battalion is assigned to the 194th Armor Brigade, Fort Moore, GA. Responsible for training enlisted Armor Crewmen and Armor Maintainers for the US Army and US Marines on armored warfare vehicles such as the M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank, and the M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle platform. The 3rd Battalion is assigned to the 199th Infantry Brigade and is currently the Provost battalion for the Maneuver Center of Excellence, Fort Moore, GA. History and lineage of 1st Battalion and Regiment The 81st Armored Regiment (Medium) was activated on 1 October 1941 at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and assigned to the 5th Armored Division. It was subsequently redesignated as the 81st Armored Regiment on 1 January 1942 and moved to Camp Cooke, California on 16 February 1942 and to the California Maneuver Area on 14 August 1942. It returned to Camp Cooke on 19 November 1942 and moved to the Tennessee Maneuver Area on 24 Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armor Branch (United States)
The Armor Branch of the United States Army is an active armored warfare combat arms branch. It was created provisionally in 1940 as Armored Force under the Chief of the Armored Force, Brigadier General Adna R. Chaffee, Jr. and took control of all tank units in infantry and cavalry units. History Even though the armor branch traces its lineage back to the original cavalry units, its first beginnings date from the First World War. The United States Tank Corps was established in 1918 but then split back into the Infantry and Cavalry in 1921. The Armored Command was headquartered at Ft. Knox, Kentucky, became effective on 2 July 1943, the Armored Center on 20 February 1944, and was discontinued on 30 October 1945. The Armor Center at Fort Knox Kentucky transferred to Fort Benning Georgia in 2010. United States Army Armor School is now located at Fort Benning. I Armored Corps (United States) was established, fought during Operation Torch in North Africa, but then upgraded in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bleicherode
Bleicherode () is a town in the district of Nordhausen, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated on the river Wipper, 17 km southwest of Nordhausen. On 1 December 2007, the former municipality Obergebra was incorporated by Bleicherode. The former municipalities Etzelsrode, Friedrichsthal, Kleinbodungen, Kraja, Hainrode, Nohra, Wipperdorf and Wolkramshausen were merged into Bleicherode in January 2019. Every Thursday, there is a market held in the town. Historically, Bleicherode belonged to the Prussian province of Saxony between 1700 and 1945. One of Bleicherode's most famous natives is the cartographer August Heinrich Petermann. File:August Petermann Geburtshaus Bleicherode.jpg, The house where Petermann was born: Neue Straße 3, Bleicherode File:Südharzreise 26 – August Petermann in Bleicherode.jpg, Memorial for August Petermann in Bleicherode Notable persons * August Heinrich Petermann (1822–1878), German cartographer * Adalbert Merx (1838–1909), G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armored Regiments Of The United States Army
Armour (British English) or armor (American English; see spelling differences) is a covering used to protect an object, individual, or vehicle from physical injury or damage, especially direct contact weapons or projectiles during combat, or from a potentially dangerous environment or activity (e.g. cycling, construction sites, etc.). Personal armour is used to protect soldiers and war animals. Vehicle armour is used on warships, armoured fighting vehicles, and some mostly ground attack combat aircraft. A second use of the term ''armour'' describes armoured forces, armoured weapons, and their role in combat. After the development of armoured warfare, tanks and mechanised infantry and their combat formations came to be referred to collectively as "armour". Etymology The word "armour" began to appear in the Middle Ages as a derivative of Old French. It is dated from 1297 as a "mail, defensive covering worn in combat". The word originates from the Old French , itself deriv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lineage And Honors
Lineage may refer to: Science * Lineage (anthropology), a group that can demonstrate its common descent from an apical ancestor or a direct line of descent from an ancestor * Lineage (evolution), a temporal sequence of individuals, populations or species which represents a continuous line of descent * Lineage (genetic) * Lineage markers * Data lineage Gaming * Lineage (series), a medieval fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game franchise ** ''Lineage'' (video game), the original 1998 game ** ''Lineage II'', a 2003 prequel to ''Lineage'' ** ''Lineage III'', an upcoming sequel to ''Lineage II'' * '' Assassin's Creed: Lineage'', a series of short films based on the ''Assassin's Creed II'' video game Television * "Lineage" (''Angel''), a 2003 episode of the television series ''Angel'' * "Lineage" (''Smallville''), a 2002 episode of television series ''Smallville'' * "Lineage" (''Star Trek: Voyager''), a 2001 episode of the television series ''Star Trek: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
4th Armored Division (United States)
The 4th Armored Division was an armored division of the United States Army that earned distinction while spearheading General Patton's Third Army in the European theater of World War II. The 4th Armored Division, unlike most other U.S. armored divisions during World War II, did not officially adopt a nickname for the division during the war. However, their unofficial nickname "Name Enough" came into use postwar; the division commander having said, "Fourth Armored Division was name enough"; "They shall be known by their deeds alone." The 4th was named the "Breakthrough" division in 1954, but that name was eventually discontinued. History The 4th Armored Division was activated during World War II on 15 April 1941 with 3,800 men (10,000 by the end of May 1941) from various other units, at Pine Camp (Camp Drum, 1951; Fort Drum, 1974), New York under its first Commanding General, Brigadier General Henry W. Baird. World War II The division was organized as a full Armored Divisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1st Armored Division (United States)
The 1st Armored Division, nicknamed "Old Ironsides," is a combined arms division of the United States Army. The division is part of III Armored Corps and operates out of Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. It was the first armored division of the United States' Army to see battle in World War II. Since World War II, the division has been involved in the Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Persian Gulf War, Iraq, Afghanistan, and several other operations. The division has also received numerous awards and recognition. Insignia The division was nicknamed "Old Ironsides" by its first commander, Major General Bruce Magruder, after he saw a picture of the frigate USS Constitution, USS ''Constitution'', also nicknamed "Old Ironsides". The large "1" at the top represents the numerical designation of the division and the insignia is used as a basis for most of the other sub-unit insignias. In January 1918, the Tank Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces, Tank Corps of the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7th Armored Division (United States)
The 7th Armored Division ("Lucky Seventh") was an armored division of the United States Army that saw distinguished service on the Western Front, from August 1944 until May 1945, during World War II. History The division was activated on 1 March 1942 out of "surplus" elements of the reorganized 3rd and 5th Armored Divisions, and itself reorganized on 20 September 1943. The 7th Armored Division trained at Camp Coxcomb in California. The 7th Armored Division arrived in England in June 1944. Throughout most of its existence the 7th Armored Division was commanded by Major General Lindsay McDonald Silvester, an infantryman who had distinguished himself in World War I. Composition The division was composed of the following units: * Headquarters * Headquarters Company * Combat Command A * Combat Command B * Combat Command Reserve * 17th Tank Battalion * 31st Tank Battalion * 40th Tank Battalion * 23rd Armored Infantry Battalion * 38th Armored Infantry Battalion * 48th Armored In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Moore
Fort Moore was the second of two historic U.S. Military Forts in Los Angeles, California, during the Mexican–American War. It lay straight above the junction of the Hollywood Freeway and Broadway, on an historic hill that once sheltered the old Plaza. The landmark hill took its name, Fort Hill, from the first fort, and the hill afforded sweeping views of the old adobe town and the vineyards in the swale of the Los Angeles River. Fort Hill was a spur of the ridge that runs from the Quarry Hills (Elysian Park) southward to Beaudry’s Bunker Hill; it originally stretched east between 1st Street and Ord Street. In old photographs, it forms a backdrop just behind the Plaza Church and square. By 1949, what was left of the hill under the fort was cut down when the Hollywood Freeway was put through.However, not all the hill was bulldozed, but some of it has been left west of Hill Street and north of the freeway, although at a fraction of its former height. The fort is now mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5th Armored Division (United States)
The 5th Armored Division ("Victory") was an armored formation of the United States Army active from 1941 to 1945 and from 1950 to 1956. History The 5th Armored "Victory" Division was activated on 10 October 1941, and reached the United Kingdom in February 1944. Combat chronicle The division landed at Utah Beach on 24 July 1944 under the command of Major General Lunsford E. Oliver, and moved into combat on 2 August, driving south through Coutances, Avranches, and Vitré, and across the Mayenne River to seize the city of Le Mans, 8 August. Turning north, the division surrounded the Germans in Normandy by advancing, through Le Mêle-sur-Sarthe liberated on 11 August, to the edge of the city of Argentan on 12 August—8 days before the Argentan-Falaise Gap was closed. Turning Argentan over to the 90th Infantry Division, the 5th Armored advanced 80 miles to capture the Eure River Line at Dreux on 16 August. Bitter fighting was encountered in clearing the Eure-Seine corrido ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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