page_title: 3rd Armored Division (United States)
section_title: Hurtgen and the Bulge
hierarchical_section_title: 3rd Armored Division (United States) / World War II / Hurtgen and the Bulge
caption_attribution_description: English: U.S. forces liberated the Dora-Mittelbau (Nordhausen) concentration camp in April 1945. In the original film at the US Archives, medics and soldiers of the U.S. Third Armored Division evacuate sick and dying survivors of the camp, while Brigadier Brigadier General Truman E. Beidinot (commander of the Brigade which found the camp) and his officers question locals.
context_page_description: The 3rd Armored Division was an armored division of the United States Army. Unofficially nicknamed the "Third Herd," the division was first activated in 1941, and was active in the European Theater of World War II. The division was stationed in West Germany for much of the Cold War, and participated in the Persian Gulf War. On 17 January 1992, in Germany, the division ceased operations. In October 1992 it was formally inactivated as part of a general drawing down of forces at the end of the Cold War.
context_section_description: On 10 September 1944, the Spearhead Division fired what it claimed was the first American field artillery shell of the war onto German soil. Two days later, it passed the German border and soon breached the Siegfried Line, taking part in the Battle of Hürtgen Forest.
  The 3rd Armored Division continued fighting during the Battle of the Bulge, far north of the deepest German penetration. The division fought south in an attack designed to help wipe out the bulge and bring First Army's line abreast of Patton's Third Army fighting northward toward Houffalize. It severed a vital highway leading to St. Vith and later reached Lierneux, Belgium, where it halted to refit.
caption: General Boudinot and 3rd AD Officers question locals after liberation of concentration camp
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