9th Armored Division (United States)

9th Armored Division (United States)

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name=9th Armored Division


caption=9th Armored Division shoulder sleeve insignia
dates=1941–1946
country=United States of America
status=Inactive
branch=Regular Army
type=
role=
size=Division
command_structure=
current_commander=
garrison=
ceremonial_chief=
colonel_of_the_regiment=
nickname="Phantom"
patron=
motto=
colors=Red, Blue and Yellow
march=
mascot=
battles=World War II
*Operation Fortitude
*Battle of the Bulge
*Operation Lumberjack
notable_commanders=
anniversaries=
US Armor
previous=8th Armored Division ("Inactive")
next=10th Armored Division ("Inactive")

The 9th Armored Division (the "Phantom Division") was an armoured division of the United States Army in World War II. In honor of their World War II service, the 9th was officially nicknamed the "Phantom Division."

History

The division was activated on 15 July 1942. It reached the United Kingdom in September 1944.

Fortitude

The 9th Division was one of several real U.S. Army divisions that participated in Operation Fortitude, the deception operation mounted by the Allies to deceive the Germans about the real landing site for Operation Neptune, the amphibious invasion of Northern France. The 9th was assigned to a camp on the British coastline opposite of the German defenses in Pas-de-Calais, ostensibly as part of the "First US Army Group" (FUSAG) under Gen. George Patton.

Chronicle

The 9th Armored Division landed in Normandy late in September 1944, and first went into line, 23 October, on patrol duty in a quiet sector along the Luxembourg-German frontier. When the Germans launched their winter offensive, the 9th, with no real combat experience, suddenly found itself engaged in heavy fighting. The Division saw its severest action at St. Vith, Echternach, and Bastogne, its units fighting in widely separated areas. Its stand at Bastogne held off the Germans long enough to enable the 101st Airborne to dig in for a defense of the city. After a rest period in January 1945, the Division made preparations for a drive across the Rur river. The offensive was launched, 28 February, and the 9th smashed across the Rur to Rheinbach, sending patrols into Remagen. The Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen was found intact, and was seized by elements of the 9th Armored minutes before demolition charges were set to explode on 7 March 1945. The Division exploited the bridgehead, moving south and east across the river Lahn toward Limburg an der Lahn, where thousands of Allied prisoners were liberated. The Division drove on to Frankfurt and then turned to assist in the closing of the Ruhr Pocket. In April it continued east, encircled Leipzig and secured a line along the Mulde river. The Division was shifting south to Czechoslovakia when the war in Europe ended.

It was inactivated on 13 October 1945.

Units of the 9th Armored Division

*2nd Tank Battalion
*14th Tank Battalion
*19th Tank Battalion
*27th Armored Infantry Battalion
*52nd Armored Infantry Battalion
*60th Armored Infantry Battalion
*HHB, Division Artillery
*3rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion
*16th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
*73rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion
*89th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, Mechanized
*509th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment
*Headquarters Company, 9th Armored Division
*HHC, Combat Command A
*HHC, Combat Command B
*Headquarters, Reserve Command
*Headquarters, 12th Armored Group
*HHC, Division Trains
*2nd Medical Battalion
*131st Armored Ordnance Maintenance Battalion
*Military Police Platoon
*9th Armored Engineer Battalion
*149th Armored Signal Company
*656th Tank Destroyer Battalion (attached 22 Feb 45 past 9 May 45)
*811th Tank Destroyer Battalion (attached 14 Nov 44 to 8 Jan 45)
*482nd AAA Automatic Weapons Battalion (attached 22 Nov 45 to 9 Jan 45; 22 Feb 45 to 9 May 45)

Descendant Units

The 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, was constituted on 29 August 1917 and organized as Headquarters, 3rd Brigade, 15th Cavalry Division in December. The 3rd Brigade demobilized on 15 July 1919 and reconstituted on 10 August 1921, within the newly-constituted 1st Cavalry Division. Although never officially reorganized, the Brigade was inactive until its 15 October 1940 activation and redesignation and conversion to HHC, 9th Armored Division Trains, and deployed to Europe, receiving campaign-participation credit for operations in the Rhineland, the Ardennes-Alsace, and the Central Europe theatres of war, and awarded two Meritorious Unit Commendations, with embroidered streamers reading: "Europe 1944" and "Europe 1945".

After World War II, the unit returned state-side and was inactivated until 15 July 1963, when it was reassigned from the 9th Armored Division, and converted and redesignated as HHC, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division.

External links

* [http://www.lonesentry.com/gi_stories_booklets/9tharmored/index.html The 9th: The Story of the 9th Armored Division] (WWII unit history booklet)
* [http://www.hood.army.mil/1stcavdiv/3rd_BDE.htm "Official 3d Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division Homepage"]
* [http://www.battleofthebulge.org/fact/fact_sheet_of_the_9th_armored_di.html Fact Sheet of the 9th Armored Division] from http://www.battleofthebulge.org


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