4. obrněná divize [1941-1946]

4. armoured division was established 15. April 1941. As a basic cadre has served the part of the members carried over from the 1. the armored division. In early 1944 the division moved to England, where she was going through training in preparation for the landing in France.

The division landed 13. July 1944, therefore, in D+37, on the beach of Utah and the fighting has engaged 17. July. The division participated in operation COBRA, during which it occupied 28. July area of the city of Coutances and then participated in the conquest of Avranches. Subsequently, the division advanced through Rennes and Vannes to Nantes. Rcyhlý procedure of the american tank units in mid-August cut off Brittany. The division then turned east and proceeded along the northern shore of the Loire river to the upper reaches of the river Seine, and further east into Lorraine. In September arrived division to the river Moselle, which crossed between the south and north of the city of Nancy, which so surrounded. During the closure of the city in the pincers of the division liberated Lunéville. The germans tried to at Arracourtu encirclement to break, but they were soundly beaten back. The division then got time to rebuild forces. In the fighting came back in early November during the attack on the vicinity of Viviers. The division advanced through Dieuze to the river Sara. Here to carve out a beachhead, which then expanded and took Singling, Bining and Baerendorf.

When the Germans attacked in the Ardennes, moved with the division to the northwest and 18. December surged to Belgium. At Bastogne, attacked the German troops, thereby relieving the surrounded 101st. airborne division. After the division went through Luxembourg to Trier, where it crossed the river Meuse. She then went on to Worms. Here in the night from 24. 25. of march crossed the Rhine and moved north to the following day crossed the river Main near Hanau. Even here, but dluoho to be. Already 29. march occupied Lauterbach and 1. April has exceeded the Creuzburgu the river Werra. The Gotha went 4. April and 12. April got in the river Hall. From there she continued still to the east, crossed the czechoslovak border and advanced up to Strakonicím, respectively, of Sand.

After the end of the war the division headquarters returned to the United states to disarm, which occurred in 1946. It wasn't a big part of the subordinate units, since units 4. armored division served as the basis for the creation of three brigades of military police formations, which in occupied Germany to maintain public order (United States Constabulary).




Sources:
Zaloga, Steven J.: US Armored Divisions. The European Theater of Operations, 1944-1945, Osprey Publishing Ltd., Oxford 2004
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org.

Připojené jednotky:
704th Tank Destroyer Battalion
489th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion (samohyb.)


Bojové nasazení:
13.07.1944 - vylodění v Normandii, operace Cobra, Countances, Avranches
.....08.1944 - Bretaň, Vannes, Lorient, Nantes, Orléans, řeka Mása
.....09.1944 - řeka Mosela, Lunneville, Arracourt, Jouvelize, Coincourt
.....10.1944 - Chambrey, Xanrey
.....11.1944 - Fonteney, Rodalbe, řeka Saar, Romelfing, Baerendorf, Wolfskirchen
.....12.1944 - Binig, Ardeny, Bastogne, Chaumont, Bigonville, Lutrebois
.....01.1945 - Noville, Bourcy, Hosdorf
.....02.1945 - Oberweiss, Erdorf, Matzen, Fliessen
.....03.1945 - Bitburg, levý břeh Rýna, Worms, Hanau, řeka Mohan, Darmstadt
.....04.1945 - Gotha, Jena, řeka Mulda
.....05.1945 - JZ Čechy, Sušice, Strakonice, Horažd'ovice, Písek