Operational History

Activated on 1 Oct 1941 at Fort Knox (Kentucky, USA).
1941 - US: Kentucky (formation and training).
1942 - US: California (desert training).
1943 - US: Tennessee (maneuvers); New York; Pennsylvania.
1944 - US: New Jersey; New York; UK (transit);
1944 - ETO: landed at Utah Beach (France) on 22 July;
1944 - ETO: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace.
1945 - ETO: Central Europe;
1945 - ETO: reached the Elbe at Tangermunde (Germany) at the end of the war.
Fate : occupation duty in Muhlhausen (Germany) after the war;
inactivated on 11 Oct 1945 at Camp Kilmer (New Jersey).

Order of Battle

1944-45 European Theatre of Operations

HQ 5th Armored Division
· Combat Command "A"
· Combat Command "B"
· Combat Command "R"

Tank Battalions
· 10th Tank Battalion
· 34th Tank Battalion
· 81st Tank Battalion

Infantry Battalions
· 15th Armored Infantry Battalion
· 46th Armored Infantry Battalion
· 47th Armored Infantry Battalion

· Divisional Artillery
· 47th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
· 71st Armored Field Artillery Battalion
· 95th Armored Field Artillery Battalion

· Divisional Troops
· 145th Armored Signals Company
· 85th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized)
· 22nd Armored Engineer Battalion
· 75th Armored Medical Battalion
· 127th Armored Ordnance Battalion
· Divisional Admin Troops