![]() ![]() Infantry Division 4th Army Cavalry Group was attached. Familiar Task Force names as Lovelady, Hogan, Welborn, Kane, Richardson, Howzee,Yeoman, and Doan's TF X. General Terry Allen's Timberwolves, and the 8th Infantry Division across the Roer River, and broke out through them to cross the plains of Cologne. 1945 the snow and the cold was left behind as the Division followed the 104 Infantry Division known as Maj. It was straight ahead for the Third Armored and again it was chosen to spearhead the First Army's drive to Cologne and the Rhine.On Feburary 26. There would be no more retreating from captured towns. The third was once again back under the VII th. We could have held the Baraque de Fraiture Cross Roads, Malempre, and Manhay. It was an answer to the the German Mark V Panther whose shells would go through both sides of the M4 Sheramans. Each Company received one of the new M-26 Pershings with the ninety mm gun and tracks a yard wide weighing 42 tons. Some of these tanks were reinforced on the front to better protect them from AP shells. Usually a medium tank company had 17 tanks. Both men and tanks were brought up to strengths. ![]() We had lost a lot of men, tanks and equipment. ![]() Joachim Peiper's column,chewed up his Task Force and sent him sneaking back to Germany across theAmbleve river. In Early Feburary the Third Armored Division moved out of the Ardennes and back to Stoleberg to regroup.We had stopped some of the greatest German units, like the 1st. ![]()
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