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For the next 14 years he would remain in the Army as a part-time soldier. On 1 May 1926 he assumed command of the 10th Infantry Brigade, part of the 3rd Division. Blamey stepped up to command the 3rd Division on 23 March 1931, and was promoted to major general, one of only four Militia officers promoted to this rank between 1929 and 1939.
Most notably the commander of the 3rd Armored Division Major General Maurice Rose was killed in an ambush outside of Paderborn on March 30. He was the highest ranking US General to be killed in action on the Western Front of World War II .
3rd "Volunteer" Division MG Robert Patterson Asst. Adjutant General: 1st Lt. William H. French. 2nd Brigade BG Gideon J. Pillow w Apr 18 Colonel William B. Campbell. Independent Company of Kentucky Infantry: Captain John Stuart Williams [4] 1st Pennsylvania Infantry: Colonel Francis M. Wynkoop
He was the General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 3rd Infantry Division during the Normandy landings in June 1944. He was injured on 13 June but recovered quickly and was given command of the 51st (Highland) Infantry Division , which he led for the rest of the campaign in Western Europe until he was killed in action during Operation Plunder ...
The 3rd Division is the only division of the U.S. Army during World War II that fought the Axis on all European fronts, [12] and was among the first American combat units to engage in offensive ground combat operations. Audie Murphy, the most highly decorated American soldier of the war, served with the 3rd Division. [13]
On the April 27, Captain Ketcham, of Company A, returned to Fort Baker from a scout to the southward of Van Dusen Fork, with twenty-four Indian prisoners, all women and children, except two young men. In attacking the rancheria four Indians were killed, including a woman, shot by mistake.
Retired Capt. David Dorn was shot and killed after responding to an alarm at Lee Pawn and Jewelry Store amid unrest over the death of George Floyd. St. Louis man charged with murder in fatal ...
27 April 1975 – Joseph Toman (45), John Feeney (45), and Brendan O'Hara (40) all Catholics, shot during a gun attack on social club, Bleary, near Lurgan by the Protestant Action Force 7 July 1975 - Andrew Johnston (26), a Royal Ulster Constabulary member, killed by an IRA bomb at Carrick Primary School.