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The official history by George F. Hofmann, The Super Sixth: History of the 6th Armored Division in World War II (1975, reprinted 2000) [6] has been called by World War II scholar Martin Blumenson, a "first-rate military history." He also noted that General Patton called the 6th AD one of the two best divisions in his Third Army.
Colonel John Leonard Hines Jr. (March 8, 1905 – November 19, 1986) was an officer in the United States Army and the son of General John L. Hines. [1]Hines graduated from West Point in 1927, and served in World War II with the 6th Armored Division as a colonel, commanding the division's Combat Command A from November 1944 to March 1945. [2]
[38] The US 6th Armored Division reached Brest by 7 August. [39] Brest was heavily armed and fortified, and was defended by approximately 30,000 German troops, including the elite 2nd Paratroop Division. [40] Brest was finally captured on 20 September, [41] at a cost of about 10,000 American casualties. [42]
Robert W. Grow was the commander the 6th Armored Division on the Western Front, fighting during the battles of Normandy and of the Bulge. His command of the 6th Armored Division in its rapid assault across the Brittany Peninsula is considered one of the finest examples of armor in the exploitation phase.
In the fall of 1942, the 6th Armored Division adopted a new table of organization which gave it three armored field artillery battalions, the 128th, 212th, and 231st. On 11 October 1942, the 128th Armored Field Artillery Battalion was constituted and assigned to the division.
[54] [65] In early 1942, two armored divisions were operational and three were in training: the 6th Armored Division was activated in February, followed by the 7th Armored Division in March. [66] McNair recommended for one division in five to be an armored division, [67] which meant up to 50 armored divisions by the end of 1943. [68]
Gammon joined the Army from Roanoke, Virginia, in March 1942, [1] and by January 11, 1945, was serving as a staff sergeant in Company A, 9th Armored Infantry Battalion, 6th Armored Division. On that day, near Bastogne, Belgium, he destroyed a German machine gun position before beginning a one-man assault on a Tiger Royal tank. He silenced a ...
The 6th Armored Division led the advance into western Brittany with the goal of rapidly capturing Brest, while the 4th Armored Division pushed south to liberate Rennes and then Quiberon Bay. [32] On 2 August all of the German Army units in Brittany were ordered to withdraw into the fortified ports, including Saint-Malo, by their parent ...