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	U.S. 1st Armored Division Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.com (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The division was reorganized in French Morocco, and began arriving in Naples, Italy on October 28, 1943.
		The 2-70 Armor and 1-41 Infantry battalion task forces augmented the 82nd Airborne Division, the 3d Infantry Division and the 101st Airborne Division throughout the campaign to oust Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
		In May 2003, the remainder of the 1st Armored Division deployed to Iraq and assumed responsibility for Baghdad and the surrounding areas, relieving the 3d Infantry Division.
	www.launchbase.com /encyclopedia/U.S._1st_Armored_Division (2426 words)

	U.S. 1st Armored Division - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Image:US 1ADDUI.PNG The division was nicknamed, "Old Ironsides", by its first commander, Major General Bruce R. Magruder, after he saw a picture of the USS Constitution, which is also nicknamed "Old Ironsides".
		The 2-70 Armor and 1-41 Infantry battalion task forces augmented the 82nd Airborne Division, the 3d Infantry Division and the 101st Airborne Division throughout the campaign to oust Iraqi dictator Suddaam Hussein.
		They were joined in May 2003, by the remainder of the 1st Armored Division, which assumed command of Baghdad and the surrounding areas, and relieved the 3d Infantry Division.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/U.S._1st_Armored_Division (1916 words)

	The 12th Armored Division
		Some five months after the D-Day invasion of western Europe, the 12th Armored Division entered France through the port of Le Havre and quickly made its way eastward toward Alsace by early December.
		During its penetration of southern Germany, the 12th overran one of the many subcamps of Dachau in the Landsberg area on April 27, 1945.
		The 12th Armored Division was recognized as a liberating unit by the U.S. Army's Center of Military History and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1988.
	www.ushmm.org /wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10006170 (213 words)

	Buchenwald Concentration Camp was liberated by 6th Armored Division of US Third Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		After crossing the Rhine river, Germany's ancient line of defense, on the night of March 22, 1945, the US Third Army, commanded by General George S. Patton, was advancing through the middle of Germany toward a pre-determined line where they would stop and wait for the Russian troops advancing from the east.
		On April 11, 1945, the 6th Armored Division of the US Third Army, approaching Weimar from the northwest, would stumble upon Buchenwald, one of the massive main concentration camps, which was on a wooded hill called the Ettersberg, 8 kilometers north of the historic town which was the citadel of German culture.
		General Patton wrote that the number of Weimar citizens who were forced to see the camp was 1,500, although other accounts say it was 2,000.
	www.scrapbookpages.com /Buchenwald/Liberation.html (1444 words)

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