3AD WWII Chronology
1941-1945
This chronology lists the major events we hope to cover in detail from general introductions to first-hand accounts from the veterans and their families themselves.
- 1941
- April 15 — Activation at Camp Beauregard, LA
- June 14 — Transfer to Camp Polk
- 1942
- July — Mojave Desert, CA
- October — Camp Pickett, VA
- 1943
- January — Indiantown Gap, PA
- September 5 — Board Ships for Europe
- September 15 — Liverpool and Bristol
- 1944
- June 24 — Omaha Beach, Normandy
- June 29 — Villiers-Fossard
- August 5-8 — Battle of Mortain
- September 3 — Capture of Mons
- September 8 — Leige taken
- September 21 — Reached Stolberg
- December 19 — Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes
- 1945
- January 16 — Battle of the Bulge ends
- March 5-7 — Cologne
- March 21 — Rhine crossing at Honnef
- March 30 — Death of General Rose
- March 31 — Paderborn
- April 11 — Nordhausen
- April 21-23 — Dessau
- May 8 — VE Day
- September — First units return to New York