Index to the General Order of the 10th Armored Division, in World War II
Statistics:
Silver
Star Medals 616
Soldier’s Medal 23
Bronze Star Medals 4,220
Air Medals 97
Purple Heart Medals 982
Army Commendation Ribbons 276
Combat Infantryman Badges 8
Combat Medic Badges 284
Certificate of Merit 747
Battle Losses 950
Total Awards 7,253
This book has 213 pages
ISBN 978-1-932891-49-2
ISBN 1-932891-49-8
Library of Congress Control Number 2005-279844
10th Armored Division's WWII Order of Battle
Headquarters Company
Headquarters Company, Combat Command A
Headquarters Company, Combat Command B
Headquarters Company, Reserve Command
3rd Tank Battalion
11th Tank Battalion
21st Tank Battalion
20th Armored Infantry Battalion
54th Armored Infantry Battalion
61st Armored Infantry Battalion
Headquarters Battery, 10th Armored Division
Artillery
419th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
420th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
423rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion
90th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, Mechanized
55th Armored Engineer Combat Battalion
80th Armored Medical Battalion
510th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment
Headquarters, Trains
132nd Armored Ordnance Maintenance Battalion
150th Armored Signal Company
Military Police Platoon
Units attached during combat operations*:
609th Tank Destroyer Battalion
638th Tank Destroyer Battalion
796th AAA Auto-Weapons Battalion
*the time period of each attachment varies
WWII Campaigns
Rhineland
Central Europe
This is the thirty-fifth in a series of indexes of all the divisions, corps, armies and commands of the US Army during WWII. Others will be published as they are completed.
This work includes all decorations cited in the general orders of the 10th Armored Division.* Please note that many decorations presented to members of the 10th Armored Division may have been cited in general orders of other commands. Most awards of the Purple Heart Medal were cited in the general orders of the hospitals that the men were evacuated to and, therefore, are not included in the work. This index does not attempt to list all of the awards of the Bronze Star Medal that were retroactively awarded under Change 13 to Army Regulation 600-45, Department of the Army, 4 November 1947. Most awards of the CIB and CMB were made in general orders of the respective armored infantry battalions. I have made no attempt to list the unit awards, awards of specific Battle Stars, and Good Conduct Medals.
One of the 10th Armored Division’s combat commands was attached to the 101st Airborne Division during the siege of Bastonge, and additional decorations may be found in the general orders of the 101st Airborne Division. Please also consult this work and Index to the General Orders of the 101st Airborne Division when researching a member of the 10th Armored Division who served at Bastonge.
This index also includes the names from the Adjutant General’s Battle Death Report of the 10th Armored Division. This lists all the men from the 10th Armored Division who gave their lives in combat.
Most general orders issued from the time the 10th Armored Division was committed to combat until (GO#130,1945,10ARMDIV) have the numerical designation of the recipient’s unit assignment expunged. It is assumed that decorations recipients were members of the 10th Armored Division, unless they were members of units not assigned to an armored division. I noticed one occasion where the Bronze Star Medal was awarded to a member of an independent armored field artillery battalion. This was determined by the fact that the 10th Armored Division was not listed in the citation, and in its place was the phrase “3rd Army.” It is possible that there were others, which I did not notice.
*The following general orders were missing from the files at the National Archives:
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(GO#1,1943,10ARMDIV) |
(GO#2,1943,10ARMDIV) |
(GO#3,1943,10ARMDIV) |
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(GO#4,1943,10ARMDIV) |
(GO#5,1943,10ARMDIV) |
(GO#6,1943,10ARMDIV) |
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(GO#7,1943,10ARMDIV) |
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(GO#77,1945,10ARMDIV) |
** Page 2 of (GO#119,1945,10ARMDIV) is very difficult to read. Many of the entries were unreadable.
*** The last general order present is dated 16 September 1945 but the 10th Armored Division was not deactivated until 13 October 1945. It is possible that there may be additional general orders issued after (GO#282,1945,10ARMDIV) but I find it unlikely.
How to read the sources: (GO#46,1945,10ARMDIV) is broken down as “GO” (General Order), “#” (Number 46, 1945), “10ARMDIV” (10th Armored Division). Information cited as (10ARMDIVAGOBD) is from the Adjutant General’s 1947 Battle Death Report for the 10th Armored Division. Entries that are in italics are men who were either Killed in Action or Died of Wounds.
Every effort has been made to minimize errors and misspelled names. An error may be attributable to the source document, or may have occurred while transcribing the names/units. Some of the original documents are of very poor print quality, making them difficult to decipher.