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The 14th Armored Division was an armored division of the United States Army assigned to the Seventh Army of the Sixth Army Group during World War II. It remains on the permanent roll of the Regular Army as an inactive division, and is eligible for reactivation. The division is officially nicknamed the "Liberators". [1]
Major General Albert Cowper Smith (June 5, 1894 – January 24, 1974) was an officer in the United States Army.He is most noted for his service as Commanding General of the 14th Armored Division during the later part of World War II.
On 16 October 1939, the regiment was relieved from its assignment to the 7th Division. [1] The regiment was assigned to the 2nd Armored Division on 15 July 1940 and activated at Fort Benning, Georgia on that day. It was reorganized and redesignated as the 14th Armored Field Artillery Battalion on 8 January 1942. [2]
The 1st through 25th Infantry Divisions, excepting the 10th Mountain Division, were raised in the Regular Army or the Army of the United States prior to American involvement in World War II. Because of funding cuts, in September 1921, the 4th through 9th Infantry Divisions were mostly inactivated.
The 62nd Infantry was reconstituted in the Regular Army as the 62nd Armored Infantry Regiment, assigned to the 14th Armored Division on 31 August 1942, and activated on 15 November 1942 at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas. When U.S. armored divisions shifted from having one armored infantry regiment to three separate armored infantry battalions in 1943 ...
Dutchak, Eugene, ed. 2d Armored Division, Fort Hood, Texas, 1961 – Topeka: Josten Military Publications, 1962. Contains information about the 1st Battalion 14th Field Artillery. Harrison, Gordon A. Cross-Channel Attack. United States Army in World War II. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1951 Historical Division, War Department.
Raid on Hammelburg; Part of the Western Allied invasion of Germany in the Western Front of the European theatre of World War II: An M4 medium tank of the 47th Tank Bn., 14th Armored Division crashes into the prison compound at Oflag XIII-B, 6 April 1945 - two weeks after the failed Task Force Baum raid.
After World War II, the group was reorganized as the 14th Constabulary Regiment and served as a police unit until 1948, when it was again reorganized as the 14th Armored Cavalry Regiment and served until 1972 as such on "Freedoms Frontier" at Fulda, Bad Kissingen and Bad Hersfeld, Germany, performing reconnaissance and border duties for NATO ...