Divisi Bersenjata ke-3 (Amerika Serikat)
Divisi Bersenjata ke-3 (bahasa Inggris: 3rd Armored Division, "Kepala Tombak"[1]) adalah sebuah divisi bersenjata dari United States Army. Secara tak resmi dijuluki "Third Herd", divisi tersebut mula-mula diaktivasi pada 1941, dan aktif dalam Teater Eropa pada Perang Dunia II. Divisi tersebut ditempatkan di Jerman Barat sepanjang Perang Dingin dan ikut dalam Perang Teluk di Persia. Pada 17 Januari 1992, di Jerman, divisi tersebut berhenti beroperasi. Pada Oktober 1992, divisi tersebut secara resmi diinaktivasi sebagai bagian dari penarikan pasukan umum pada akhir Perang Dingin.
Referensi
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Bacaan tambahan
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Trauschweizer, Ingo. The Cold War U.S. Army: Building Deterrence for Limited War. Univ. Press of Kansas (2008). ISBN 978-0-7006-1578-0.
- Carter, Donald A. Forging the Shield: The U.S. Army in Europe, 1951-1962. U.S. Army Center of Military History (2015). ISBN 978-0-16-092754-6
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Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai 3rd Armored Division (United States).
- 3AD.com – The 3rd Armored Division History Foundation – Covering 1941 to 1992 with high-quality photos, feature articles, documents, audio, and more. Includes, for example, complete text of the 260-page 3AD World War II history "Spearhead in the West" ; audio of President Kennedy's speech to the troops in 1963; details on 3AD Cold War nuclear weapons; Spearhead Newspaper's Gulf War reports; and a look at Elvis Presley's Army days.
- Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge
- Association of 3d Armored Division Veterans (All-era group) – Extensive historical information, personal photos, and featuring a roster of Operation Desert Storm troops.
- 3rd Armored Division Association Archives at the University of Illinois. Text-only listings of their large World War II collection, which must be visited in person. Diarsipkan 2006-09-01 di Wayback Machine.
- 3rd AD Unit page on Military.com. Diarsipkan 2012-02-04 di Wayback Machine.
- Roll of Honor of the 3d Armored Division during WWII.
- Bureau of Land Management site on 3rd AD training area in Mojave Desert Diarsipkan 2008-08-28 di Wayback Machine.
- 3rd Armor Division Profile Diarsipkan 2017-07-13 di Wayback Machine. in Order of Battle of the United States Army World War II Diarsipkan 2008-03-11 di Wayback Machine., 1945 reproduced at United States Army Center of Military History
- GlobalSecurity.org 3rd Armored Division site
- United States Holocaust Historical Museum site, featuring an overview of the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp by the 3rd AD, with videos and photos