SHOULDER SLEEVE INSIGNIA

Description: A gold colored metal and enamel device, consisting of a yellow shield on which is a blue caltrop with one point up; within the center of the caltrop a white equilateral triangle with one point down.

Symbolism: Yellow alludes to armor. The caltrop is a representation of the shoulder sleeve insignia of III Corps. Blue and white are the colors used for corps.

 
 

LINEAGE

RA (active)

Organized 16 May 1918 in the Regular Army in France as Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, III Army Corps. Demobilized 9 August 1919 at Camp Sherman, Ohio. Reconstituted 27 June 1944 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, III Corps; concurrently consolidated with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, III Corps (active) (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, III Corps. Inactivated 10 October 1946 at Camp Polk, Louisiana. Activated 15 March 1951 at Camp Roberts, California. Inactivated 5 May 1959 at Fort Hood, Texas. Activated 1 September 1961 at Fort Hood, Texas. Reorganized and redesignated 24 September 1965 as Headquarters, III Corps; Headquarters Company, III Corps, concurrently constituted and activated at Fort Hood, Texas.

ANNEX

Constituted 15 August 1927 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, XXII Corps. Redesignated 13 October 1927 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, III Corps. Activated 18 December

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1940 at the Presidio of Monterey, California. Redesignated 1 January 1941 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, III Army Corps. Redesignated 19 August 1942 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, III Corps.

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
 

World War I     Aisne-Marne     Oise-Aisne     Meuse-Argonne     Champagne 1918     Lorraine 1918

World War II      Northern France     Rhineland     Ardennes-Alsace     Central Europe

DECORATIONS
    None.

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_______. The Lorraine Campaign. United States Army in World War II. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1950.

First United States Army Report of Operations, 23 February-8 May 1945. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1946.

Forty, George. Patton's Third Army at War. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978.

Historical Section, Army War College. Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War; American Expeditionary Forces; General Headquarters, Armies, Army Corps, Services of Supply, and Separate Forces. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1937. Reprint. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1988.

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Montgomery, John H., Jr. "The Remagen Bridgehead." Military Review 29 (July 1949):3-7.

"A Salute to the Army Corps." Army Information Digest 17 (September 1962):26-31.

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Wallace, Brenton G. Patton and His Third Army. Harrisburg: Military Service Publishing Company, 1946.