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		On 31 December 1943, the Third Army was transferred to combat army status and at 0830 the next morning came the telephone call for which they had waited so long.
		Third Army contributed immeasurably to the destruction of the Nazi war machine of Adolph Hitler's Germany.
		Seventh Army reverted to inoperational status on 25 March whereupon Third Army assumed all occupational and operational responsibilities for the combined areas.
	www.angelfire.com /rpg/ThirdArmy/His.html (1035 words)

	Army Central Command - ARCENT / Third United States Army
		Third Army is capable of performing as the Joint Forces Land Component Command, or Command of a Coalition / Joint Task Force coordinating the combined efforts of all land forces within a theater of operations.
		The mission of the Third Army was to serve as the administrative headquarters for an area that covered the seven southeastern states of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
		The experience gained at Third Army Headquarters during the periods of demobilization, expansion, and economy in a short period of three years, prepared the Third Army Commander and his staff for the arduous task of mobilizing and training sufficient troops to cope with the national emergency that arose as a result of the Korean crisis.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/arcent.htm (5520 words)

	Third Army/ARCENT/CFLCC Kuwait - CG Welcome Letter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Third Army is capable of performing as the Joint/Coalition Forces Land Component Command, or Command of a Coalition / Joint Task Force coordinating the combined efforts of all land forces within a theater of operations.
		Focusing primarily on the Middle East, Central Command and Third Army's area of responsibility (AOR) is a large and complex region.
		It is also the same Army that responded to the September 11 attacks with commitment and action to root out and punish terrorists, and those who harbor, facilitate and finance them.
	www-ku.arcent.army.mil /welcome_packet/welcome.asp (496 words)

	The Patton Society Research Library The Third Army in WWII
		Third Army's VIII Corps made a second assault crossing of the Rhine south of Koblenz on the 26th of March.
		Third Army's final campaign across the Danube River, into Czechoslovakia and Austria, was halted with the official end of the war in Europe at 0001 hours (one minute after midnight) on May 9th, 1945.
		Military personnel in the Third Army were paid a total of $240,539,569 from the 1st of August, 1944 until the 30th of April, 1945.
	www.pattonhq.com /textfiles/thirdhst.html (8543 words)

	Army extends 'Third Wave' deadline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Army extended the deadline to Jan. 15 for Army functional chiefs to submit final requests arguing what positions should be exempt from the "Third Wave" of privatization.
		Anderson said this is necessary because the Army is operating within fixed constraints -- an end-strength of 480,000 active-duty soldiers -- in a wartime environment where there may be increasing demands for military capabilities.
		Third, Anderson said it is necessary for the Army to be a good steward of the taxpayers' dollars and to support the President's Management Agenda calling for competitive sourcing.
	www.dcmilitary.com /army/pentagram/7_50/national_news/20854-1.html (617 words)

	Soldiers Magazine: Third army: mission-ready
		As the Army's headquarters element within the joint-services U.S. Central Command, Third Army is commonly known as ARCENT, for Army Central Command.
		Third Army headquarters can deploy to a crisis area at a moment's notice and assume the role of Joint Forces Land Component Command, as it did in Kuwait, at the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom, officials said.
		As Third Army continues to execute multiple and parallel operations, CSM John D. Sparks said he could not be more proud of the organization's officers, NCOs and civilians, and of what they have accomplished in the continuing war on terrorism.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0OXU/is_3_59/ai_115347523 (657 words)

	Patton Speech to Third Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Corps and Army Commanders must make it a point to be physically seen by as many individuals of their command as possible -- certainly by all combat soldiers.
		Once all armies were in place on the continent Bradley was to assume command of 12th Group with both armies under him, and Hodges would command 1st Army.) You made an outstanding record as an able and hard-working staff under my predecessor.
		By working harmoniously and intelligently together a third staff will be developed with a third procedure, which should be better than either of the other two.
	www.knox.army.mil /museum/pattonsp.htm (2685 words)

	Lucky War Third Army in Desert Storm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Third Army's moniker since World War II has been "Lucky"; hence the title of the book.
		Because of the Army's lack of doctrine and expertise at echelons of command above the corps, Third Army and Gen John Yeosock were ill prepared to take on responsibilities as the ground component.
		His discussion of the buildup to the attack identifies the immenseness of the problems facing Third Army-specifically, the initial beddown of XVIII Airborne Corps and its preparation to defend Saudi Arabia, and the deployment, reception, training, and organization of a second corps for offensive action.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/bookrev/swain.html (984 words)

	THE ARDENNES: BATTLE OF THE BULGE (XXIV)
		Arguing from the experiences of World War I, the Third Army commander held that the Ardennes salient should be cut off and the German armies engulfed therein by a vise closing from north and south against the shoulders of the Bulge.
		Thus the Third Army would move northeast from Luxembourg City toward Bitburg and Prum along what the Third Army staff called the "Honeymoon Trail." General Smith, the SHAEF chief of staff, was in agreement with this solution, as were Hodges, Gerow, and Collins-in principle.
		At the Fifth Panzer Army conference on the 29th one of the SS officers present was General Priess, commander of the I SS Panzer Corps.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/wwii/7-8/7-8_24.htm (18703 words)

	Part II
		Unlike consultants of some other armies, he therefore had the advantage of knowing all that was necessary to know for the preparation of medical facilities for the invasion and could thus fulfill his own duties and responsibilities as efficiently as possible.
		The office of the army surgeons was kept informed of all movement of the teams, and assignments were accomplished without friction or other difficulties because of the cooperation of the army surgeon and his executive officer.
		All surgeons of the Third U.S. Army were thoroughly indoctrinated with the importance of attempting repair of vascular injuries, since in their repair lay the greatest possible chances of salvage of limbs.
	history.amedd.army.mil /booksdocs/wwii/actvsurgconvoli/CH15.htm (15233 words)

	POL Resupplying Patton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		By mid-September the Allied armies stood ready to attack on the German border in the north and on the banks of the Moselle River in the south.
		This resistance caused the Third Army to fight considerably harder than they were accustomed during the first months of the campaign.
		By the time November rolled around and the Third Army was able to start moving again, they had replenished their depleted stocks and had built a substantial reserve.
	www.qmfound.com /pol.htm (1876 words)

	Patton and Logistics of the Third Army: Lessons for Today's Joint Logistician (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Third Army Staff members, especially the G-4 and other logistics related sections prepared to reorient the entire army 90 degrees, move it over 100 miles in the middle of winter in a period of 72 hours, and then attack with three divisions in the lead.
		Third Army’s swift attack hit the rear echelons of the still advancing panzer spearheads, further weakening the German attack and ultimately preparing the battlefield for an Allied counterattack in early 1945.
		Third Army ammunition trains moved an average of 4,500 tons of ammunition per day during the last half of December and consumed on the average, only 3,500 tons per day.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/cc/decker.html (10640 words)

	Union Army 3rd Corps
		This battle was fought almost entirely by the Third Corps; of the 2,239 casualties on that field, 2,002 occurred within its ranks; and three-fourths of them in Hooker's Division, the brunt of the battle having fallen on the Excelsior Brigade and Jersey Brigade, both in Hooker's command.
		Upon the withdrawal from the front of Richmond, the Third Corps accompanied the Army of the Potomac to Manassas, where it was sent to reenforce Pope.
		The Third Division was transferred entire to the Sixth Corps, where, under command of General Ricketts, it became the Third Division of that corps.
	www.civilwarhome.com /3rdcorps.htm (1374 words)

	USATODAY.com - Third U.S. Army moves from Georgia to Kuwait (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		KUWAIT (AP) — The Third U.S. Army has temporarily moved its command headquarters, including the control of its campaign in Afghanistan, from Georgia to Kuwait, the American Embassy said on Monday.
		The Third Army's operations, which stretch from East Africa to Central Asia, include ground forces involved in the defense of Kuwait, the campaign in Afghanistan and humanitarian aid in Afghanistan.
		The U.S. Army central command is known as the Third U.S. Army and forms the army component of the Florida-based U.S. Central Command, the nerve center for America's military operations in the Middle East and Central Asia.
	www.usatoday.com /news/sept11/2001/12/10/kuwait.htm (285 words)

	'The Third Army' marches into Long Wharf \| Jan 19, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Though these scenes initially strike the audience as illuminating the traditional weak points in human will, the characters harden as the play proceeds, and these poignant confessional dialogues turn out to be deceptive.
		The Third Army proves a difficult play to end because the constant deceptions throughout make any assertion hard to believe.
		With a far too neat ending that lacks all of the complexity that makes this play so rich, it is as if Sutton's characters had suddenly joined a support group and confessed every single lie.
	www.yaleherald.com /archive/xxxi/2001.01.19/ae/p18.html (713 words)

	Buchenwald Concentration Camp was liberated by 6th Armored Division of US Third Army
		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.
		The American army was determined that the ordinary German people should see the depths of depravity to which their Nazis leaders had sunk.
	www.scrapbookpages.com /Buchenwald/Liberation.html (1444 words)

	Feste...a foolsblog: "Third... Always First!"
		A few facts about the the US Third Army (USCENTCOM) as it drives toward Bagdad might be in order.
		From its inception, Third Army has played a major role in America's military history.
		On August 1st, 1944 at 1200 hours was when the Third Army was officially operational as a combat army under the command of Lieutenant General George S. Patton, Jr.
	www.foolsblog.com /archives/000277.html (456 words)

	General George Patton - US Third Army
		The second and biggest part deals with the operations conducted by his Third Army from France to Germany, Czechoslovakia and Austria.
		Very informative are his views of Eisenhower, Bradley and Montgomery as well as the German side especially concerning the Battle of the Bulge.
		The third part is a personal view of tactics, the military generally and his career.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Barracks/2911/b/patton.html (686 words)

	Third U.S. Army Apache Longbow Battalion Certified Combat-Ready
		The Army fielded its first combat-ready Apache Longbow battalion in October 1998 and the second in November 1999.
		All pilots from the Army's third Apache Longbow battalion received their initial training at Fort Rucker, Ala., while the unit's maintainers received their training at Mesa and Fort Eustis, Va.
		The U.S. Army is modernizing its fleet of AH-64A Apaches into next-generation Apache Longbow helicopters, which link a wide range of avionics, electronics and weapons into one fully integrated weapon system.
	www.boeing.com /news/releases/2001/q1/news_release_010330n.htm (294 words)

	German Third Reich Army Swords
		Documentation included with the sword indicates that Hauptmann Küppers was born in Hamburg/Rhein on 6 October 1896, served in WWI and was recalled for duty as a Reserve Officer for service in WWII.
		This model sword was available with either a silver (Model 1017) or gilt langet eagle (Model 1007) as the example in the photograph has the silver eagle, while the eagle on this sword is gilt.
		Beautiful example of an Army pattern sword that was carried by the Police prior to the introduction of the standard 1936 pattern Police sword.
	www.johnsonreferencebooks.com /catalogue/weapons/swords/thirdreich (1889 words)

	TROKA (Third ROK Army)
		The 3rd ROK Army headquarters mission is to defend Kyonggi Province.
		These armies, in order to prepare for surprise attacks and high-speed maneuver warfare launched by North Korea, deploy ROK-model tanks, a variety of firearms, TOWs and surface-to-air missiles along the major route that connects the DMZ to Seoul.
		In June 1992, the Combined Field Army was disestablished and the 604 ASOCS was realigned with the Third Republic of Korea Army (TROKA).
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/rok/troka.htm (725 words)

	Israel's Nuclear Weapons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He is the only army officer to be board certified in these three specialties.
		He is now the senior Special Forces medical officer in the U.S. Army with prior assignments in the 5th, 7th, and 10th Special Forces Groups (Airborne), 1st Special Forces, in Vietnam, the United States, and Germany.
		Soon the Israelis encircled the Egyptian Third Army and it was faced with annihilation on the east bank of the Suez Canal, with no protective forces remaining between the Israeli Army and Cairo.
	www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/cpc-pubs/farr.htm (10185 words)

	Third Army/ARCENT/CFLCC Home Page
		FORT MCPHERSON, Ga. (Oct. 13, 2005) — MG Gary Speer, outgoing Third Army/CFLCC deputy commanding general, speaks during a Combined Federal Campaign kickoff Oct. 13 at Fort McPherson, Ga. This year’s campaign, which began Sept. 29, is scheduled to conclude Nov. 11.
		Required Army OPSEC Training for all Soldiers, DAC's, and Army Contractors
		Supporting Our Friends in Iraq and Afghanistan (SOFIA) is a Department of Defense program that seeks to hire motivated civilian employees to help the fledgling Iraqi and Afghani governments in their quest to become full-fledged democracies.
	www.arcent.army.mil (207 words)

	Spearhead Page
		Following is a transcript of a pamphlet titled Spearheading with the Third Armored Division.
		I have encountered some confusion among visitors between the Third Army (of General Patton fame) and the 3rd Armored Division.
		"...U.S. Army unit identification protocol stipulated, and still does, that Armies (Third US Army, Fifth US Army, etc.) are written English numerals spelled out in the plain...To this day, the World War II veterans of the Division still seeth with anger about being confused with Patton's Third Army...and for good reason.
	www.geocities.com /ResearchTriangle/Facility/3991/ww2spear.htm (367 words)

	Third Army/ARCENT/CFLCC Kuwait - Welcome Packet Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Third United States Army is home-based at Fort McPherson, GA. As the Army’s only deployable field army-level HQ, it has forward-based a significant part of the HQ to Kuwait to form the Land Component Command for coalition forces in the CENTCOM AOR.
		The STB is a battalion-level headquarters for the CFLCC HQ and is the higher headquarters for Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Third United States Army and the Third United States Army Augmentation Company (TPU), as well as all company and detachment level units attached to the CFLCC HQs.
		Personnel are either active duty or reserve component Soldiers who are augmenting the Third United States Army staff as a worldwide augmentee or borrowed military manpower.
	www.kuwait.army.mil /welcome_packet/intro.asp (463 words)

	TelecomWriting.com: Patton's speech to the Third Army
		I don't give a damn for a man who is not always on his toes.
		Every man in the army plays a vital part.
		Thank God, that at least, thirty years from now, when you are sitting around the fireside with your grandson on your knees, and he asks you what you did in the great war, you won't have to cough and say, "I shoveled shit in Louisiana."
	www.privateline.com /war/patton.html (1429 words)

	US ARMY WW2 DOG TAGS
		Tag silencers were introduced around the end of the war, in order to prevent clanking of the metal elements.
		For Dog Tags, it should be noted that there are many changes related to wartime shortages of strategic materials, involving manufacturing of these items in monel, brass, steel, stainless steel.
		Remark 4: about brass Dog Tags; in December 1940, the Army had to make a choice between brass or monel – they chose the latter (stronger alloy with brass and nickel content) because nickel was on the list of critical items.
	home.att.net /~steinert/us_army_ww2_dog_tags.htm (2038 words)

	Famous Third Army, anglais américain, Movies/Videos\|Documentary, VHS Video Tape
		General George S. Patton commanded the U.S. Third Army during 281 days of incessant combat with the Germans in 1944 and '45.
		This documentary is a record of the Third Army's drive through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia.
		It features a fast-moving narrative of the strategy and tactics employed by the only American general considered by the Germans to be the equal of their best Panzer generals.
	www.worldlanguage.com /French/Products/29275.htm (312 words)

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