Post by quincannon on May 13, 2017 19:29:50 GMT
1ST TANK. DESTROYER BRIGADE
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Tank Destroyer Brigade activated 18 November 1942.
Inactivated 31October 1945
Campaigns: Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe
2ND TANK DESTROYER BRIGADE
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Tank Destroyer Brigade activated 24 November 1942.
Disbanded 8 March 1944.
Campaigns: None
1ST TANK DESTROYER GROUP
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Tank Destroyer Group activated 30 March 1942.
Inactivated 5 November 1945.
Campaigns: Tunisia, Naples-Foggia, Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe
2ND TANK DESTROYER GROUP
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Tank Destroyer Group activated 15 March 1942.
Inactivated 5 November 1945.
Campaigns: Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Central Europe
3RD TANK DESTROYER GROUP
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Tank Destroyer Group activated 30 March 1942.
Inactivated 22 February 1946.
Campaigns: Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe
4TH TANK DESTROYER GROUP
Headquarters and Headquarters Company 4th Tank Destroyer Group activated 1 September 1942.
Inactivated 26 October 1945.
Campaigns: Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe
5TH TANK DESTROYER GROUP
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 5th Tank Destroyer Group activated 1 September 1942.
Inactivated 4 December 1945
Campaigns: Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe
6TH TANK DESTROYER GROUP
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 6th Tank Destroyer Group activated 1 September 1942.
Redesignated 1 May 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 5th Constabulary Regiment
Campaigns: Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Central Europe.
7TH TANK DESTROYER GROUP
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 7th Tank Destroyer Group activated 1 September 1942.
Inactivated 25 March 1946.
Campaigns: Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe
8TH TANK DESTROYER GROUP
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 8th Tank Destroyer Group activated 13 October 1942.
Inactivated 20 October 1945.
Campaigns: Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe
9TH TANK DESTROYER GROUP
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 9th Tank Destroyer Group activated 13 October 1942.
Inactivated 1 November 1945
Campaigns: Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe
10TH TANK DESTROYER GROUP
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 10th Tank Destroyer Group activated 13 February 1943.
Disbanded 25 May 1944.
Campaigns: None
11TH TANK DESTROYER GROUP
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 11th Tank Destroyer Group activated 20 February 1943.
Disbanded 25 May 1944.
Campaigns: None
12TH TANK DESTROYER GROUP
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 12th Tank Destroyer Group activated 7 February 1943.
Inactivated 1 November 1945.
Campaigns: Rhineland, Central Europe
13TH TANK DESTROYER GROUP
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 13th Tank Destroyer Group activated 6 March 1942
Inactivated 12 November 1945
Campaigns: Pacific Theater without inscription
14TH TANK DESTROYER GROUP
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 14th Tank Destroyer Group activated 13 March 1943.
Inactivated 20 May 1944.
Campaigns: None
15TH TANK DESTROYER GROUP
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 15th Tank Destroyer Group activated 20 March 1943.
Inactivated 25 August 1944.
Campaigns: None
16TH TANK DESTROYER GROUP
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 16th Tank Destroyer Group activated 3 April 1943.
Inactivated 10 November1945.
Campaigns: Rhineland, Central Europe
17TH TANK DESTROYER GROUP
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 17th Tank Destroyer Group activated 10 April 1943.
Disbanded 30 August 1944.
Campaigns: None
18TH TANK DESTROYER GROUP
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 18th Tank Destroyer Group activated 17 April 1943.
Inactivated 20 February 1945.
Campaigns: None
19TH TANK DESTROYER GROUP
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 19th Tank Destroyer Group activated 1 May 1943.
Disbanded 20 May 1944.
Campaigns: None
20TH TANK DESTROYER GROUP
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 20th Tank Destroyer Group activated 8 may 1943.
Inactivated 23 November 1945.
Campaigns: Rhineland, Central Europe
21ST TANK DESTROYER GROUP
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 21st Tank Destroyer Group activated 15 May 1943
Inactivated 22 November 1945.
Campaigns: None
22ND TANK DESTROYER GROUP
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 22nd Tank Destroyer Group activated 5 June 1943.
Inactivated 20 February 1945.
Campaigns: None
23RD TANK DESTROYER GROUP
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 23rd Tank Destroyer Group activated 12 June 1943.
Inactivated 26 October 1945.
Campaigns: Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe
24TH TANK DESTROYER GROUP
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 24th Tank Destroyer Group activated 19 June 1943.
Inactivated 23 December 1944.
Campaigns: None
NOTE: Tank Destroyer Brigades and Groups were in large measure a waste of manpower for the brigade, and the groups deployed to any of the theaters of operations. The original idea was for the brigade to be a theater asset controlling a number of groups, and the groups in turn controlling a number of separate tank destroyer battalions. In practice the brigade was merely an administrative headquarters of no real value to the war effort, while the groups were hardly ever used for their intended purpose and tended to take on administrative and rear area security supervision duties within their areas of assignment. The separate tank destroyer battalions were most often attached directly to Infantry and Armored Divisions, thus negating the need for either the brigade or group headquarters.
Where the brigade and group headquarters proved to be valuable is in the brigade and groups that were never deployed outside the United States. They were tasked with supervising the activation and training of new tank destroyer battalions, before those battalions were deployed overseas. Once that need had passed most were inactivated or disbanded, while the few remaining supervised those TD battalions that were training individual soldiers as replacements for units in combat.
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