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The 11th Armored Division (11 AD) was a division of the United States Army in World War II.It was activated on 15 August 1942 at Camp Polk, Louisiana and moved on 24 June 1943 for the Louisiana Maneuvers.
The Chenogne massacre was a war crime committed by members of the 11th Armored Division, an American combat unit, near Chenogne, Belgium, on January 1, 1945, during the Battle of the Bulge. According to eyewitness accounts, an estimated 80 German prisoners of war were massacred by their American captors; the prisoners were assembled in a field ...
The 11th Armored Regiment was constituted on 11 July 1942 in the Army of the United States, assigned to the 10th Armored Division (AD), and organized at Fort Benning on 15 July 1942 from the personnel and equipment of the 11th Cavalry Regiment. The motto on the unit insignia is "Allons", which means "Let's Go" in French.
In March 1944, he took command of the 11th Armored Division after its commander, Major General Edward H. Brooks, was transferred to command of the 2nd Armored Division. Kilburn then led the 11th Armored during training at Camp Cooke, California and later in England. [1] The division landed in Normandy in December 1944, and was assigned to mop ...
Assigned to the 7th Infantry Division 16 November 1917. The regiment was inactivated on 22 September 1921 at Camp Meade, Maryland and disbanded 31 July 1922, with personnel concurrently transferred to the 34th Infantry Regiment. Reconstituted in the Regular Army as the 55th Armored Infantry and assigned to the 11th Armored Division 9 June
After the German surrender, the 11th Armoured Division was used as an occupation force in the Schleswig-Holstein area. On 23 May, units of the division were employed in the capture of members of the Dönitz Government in Flensburg. [37] The 11th Armoured Division was disbanded shortly after the end of the war at the end of January 1946.
11th Armored Cavalry Regiment is the opposing forces unit at the National Training Center, stationed at Fort Irwin, California; 12th Cavalry Regiment. 1st Battalion is a combined arms battalion assigned to the 3rd Armored BCT, 1st Cavalry Division, stationed at Fort Cavazos, Texas.
During World War II, Holbrook served with the 11th Armored Division, and accepted the surrender of Linz, Austria. [3] He commanded the 12th Armored Division from July 1945, until it was inactivated on December 3, 1945.