US Army Training Center - Yearbook (Fort Leonard Wood, MO)

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,. . L A - N., -, R ,gs t. .iggs ll Q i , kt gg -tx th in X , SW Nj' .41 .A Q5 A .4 ... .. E75,3JQ. Ag' 4 -7,1 '1 7- ', ,W -' Q'- 'Q . f t - 'ff 1 ,Q-my .sign , ,..,Ns.hng4, RlGll'l' UP FRONT? .Xn ollicer of Hezxclqnarters. 2131511 Armored Field Artillery, fith Armored Di- vision. rcalcls the Articles ol' War to men ol' his organization in Nia- gerct. livlginni. tt short tiigggnqg front the lront lines. The date , , , -ljilllllllff' 20, 1945. tL'. S, A1-mv l hotoj ' liiigiiit-ws ol' the tith Armored Division, Li. S. Third Army, clear the debris li-ont a road in Dasburg, iit'1'1i1,itiy. The town was tht' target oli t'ont't'nt1'ztted bonibcr attacks. ss ,m . A '-,, 'A' an Q. ti all M f 'vhi ,L I 5 EJ 73 lg li li A i L h E . V. . . . fE.,, F ,A A Anicrittin vvliiclcs in tht- town ol' Lurka, fit'I'Ill21I1y2llill'I' its capture by the bth Artnorecl Division, lf. S. Third Arniy. l.uc'ka, Gt-rtitatly. lil April 1411.3 ll Illll IN WUHIH WHH II Leaving Brest, the tanks ofthe 'gSuper Sixth turned south to rumble past Lorient, then east and through Urleans, south of Paris and to the Fortress city of Metz. lt was assigned to the Seventh Army which had landed in Southern France. As the 6th Armored came within sight of Germany the winter counter-offensive began. The Division was sent north to relieve the 10th Armored Division. Then for more than 3 weeks the tankers and infantrymen of the Division fought in the Battle ofthe Bulge. It fought in the winter hell north of Bastogne. The Germans threw everything they had at them. The freezing cold froze the mechanical parts of tanks, ma- chine guns and rifles. For five days the Division was pushed back slowly but soon the tide of battle reversed and the men ofthe 6th Armored slowly began pushing the Germans back into their own country, across the Our River. Then the tanks began to roll once more. The Division thundered on to Saarbrucken, crossed the Rhine River near Manheim, rumbled through Frankfurt and continued to- wards central Germany. The Division passed the historic city of Wfeimar and as the WVar came to an end, the men ofthe now famed 6th Armored Division had reached Rochlitz. The Division was brought back to the United States and was deactivated at Gamp Shanks, New York on September 18, 1945.

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H uper Sixth U . -. wwf- . Dfw.,-. -, ,-,, L, S 501 Aslfggffwgig , ?1 . wi -1 if The Division was activated 15 February 1942 at Fort Knox, Kentucky and was given the name, 'LSuper Sixthu. A month later found it at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas where it began training. It took part in the famous Louisiana maneuvers in the summer of 1942 and went to Camp Young, California for desert training. Later the Division went to Camp Cooke, California where it came under the H Armored Corps. The 6th Armored Division left the United States in Febru- ary 1944 from the New York Port of Embarkation. It landed in England and began intensive training in preparation for the invasion of Europe. On the 24th ofjuly 1944 the Division landed at f'Utah beach and headed across the Cherbourg Peninsula for Brit- tany. Two weeks later the 6th Armored had trapped 40,000 Germans in Brest. During this spectacular dash the Division averaged 25 miles per day and during one 24 hour period covered 48 miles. During the advance, the Division Com- mander, Major General Robert W. Grow exclaimed to one of his staff, Wfhese maps are too small. Give me a map large enough so I won't run off it today.

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if fr ry. f 3 C' I BRIGADIER GENERAL NORMANDO A. COSTELLO Assistant Division Commander ,fa COLONEL C. R. ROSENBAUM Chief of Staff