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III Armored Corps is a corps of the United States Army headquartered at Fort Hood, Texas. It is a major formation of United States Army Western Hemisphere Command.
The "Red Ball Express" which III Corps helped organize.
Exercise REFORGER which III Corps units participated in
President Barack Obama speaks outside of III Corps headquarters, Fort Hood, Texas
The 1st Armored Division, nicknamed "Old Ironsides", is a combined arms division of the United States Army. The division is part of III Armored Corps and operates out of Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas.
III Armored Corps
…in 2003. As of April 2019, III Corps includes some of the oldest formations of their type in the US Army: 1st Infantry Division, 1st Cavalry Division, 1st Armored Division and 1st Medical Brigade. III Corps was first organized on 16 May 1918 in France. It was designed as three of the four newly activated corps of the…
The M5 Stuart tank was used by "Iron Soldiers" during World War II.
WWII 1st Armored Division Flag
Exhibit at the 1st Armored Division and Fort Bliss museum depicts the type of bivouac site used in North Africa in WWII. Soldiers slept in cloth tents and carried chests of equipment and stoves.
Sticker Handed out to Division Staff prior to Mountain Eagle 1995