3rd Armored Division Task Organization as of August 20, 1944

Command Group: Brigadier General Maurice Rose1

Division Main Command Post (Omaha Forward): Colonel John A. Smith, Jr.2

Division Trains: Colonel Carl J. Rohsenberger

Division Rear Command Post (Omaha Rear) & Service Company3

3rd Ordnance (Maintenance) Battalion (-): Lieutenant Colonel Joseph L. Cowhey

Supply Battalion: Major Rodney J. Banta

45th Armored Medical Battalion (-): Lieutenant Colonel Charles L. Steyaart

Military Police Platoon

Division Troops (working directly for the division)

143rd Armored Signal Company: Captain John L. Wilson

83rd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion: Lieutenant Colonel William L. Cabaniss

Combat Command A (CCA): Brigadier General Doyle O. Hickey4

32nd Armored Regiment: Lieutenant Colonel Leander L. Doan

(Task Force Doan)

1st Battalion, 32nd Armored Regiment: Lieutenant Colonel Elwyn W. Blanchard5

1st Battalion (-), 36th Armored Infantry Regiment: Major Theodore P. Mason

Company A, 23rd Armored Engineer Battalion (-)

Company A, 703rd Tank Destroyer Battalion (-)

Company A, 45th Armored Medical Battalion (-)

3rd Battalion, 32nd Armored Regiment: Lieutenant Colonel Walter B. Richardson6

(Task Force Richardson)

Company C, 1st Battalion, 36th Armored Infantry Regiment

Platoon, Company A, 23rd Armored Engineer Battalion

Platoon, Company A, 703rd Tank Destroyer Battalion

Platoon, Company A, 45th Armored Medical Battalion

54th Armored Field Artillery Battalion: Lieutenant Colonel Robert G. Moore7

67th Armored Field Artillery Battalion: Lieutenant Colonel Edward S. Berry

Battery A, 486th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion

Detachment, 3rd Ordnance (Maintenance) Battalion

Combat Command B (CCB): Colonel Truman E. Boudinot8

33rd Armored Regiment: Colonel Dorrence S. Roysdon

(Task Force Roysdon)

1st Battalion, 33rd Armored Regiment: Lieutenant Colonel Rosewell H. King9

2nd Battalion, 36th Armored Infantry Regiment (-): Major Thomas G. Tousey, Jr.

Company D, 23rd Armored Engineer Battalion (-)

Company B, 703rd Tank Destroyer Battalion (-)

Company B, 45th Armored Medical Battalion (-)

2nd Battalion, 33rd Armored Regiment: Lieutenant Colonel William B. Lovelady10

(Task Force Lovelady)

Company D, 2nd Battalion, 36th Armored Infantry Regiment

Platoon, Company D, 23rd Armored Engineer Battalion

Platoon, Company B, 703rd Tank Destroyer Battalion

Platoon, Company B, 45th Armored Medical Battalion

87th Armored Field Artillery Battalion: Lieutenant Colonel George F. Barber11

391st Armored Field Artillery Battalion: Lieutenant Colonel George G. Garton

Battery B, 486th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion

Detachment, 3rd Ordnance (Maintenance) Battalion

Combat Command Reserve (CCR a.k.a. Division Reserve)

and 36th Armored Infantry Regiment: Colonel Louis P. Leone

2nd Battalion, 32nd Armored Regiment: Major Richard L. Bradley, Jr.12

3rd Battalion, 36th Armored Infantry Regiment: Major R. T. Dunn13

3rd Battalion, 33rd Armored Regiment: Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Hogan

23rd Armored Engineer Battalion (-): Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence G. Foster

703rd Tank Destroyer Battalion (-): Lieutenant Colonel Wilbur E. Showalter14

Company C, 45th Armored Medical Battalion (-)

183rd Field Artillery Battalion (155mm, towed): Lieutenant Colonel William C. George15

991st Armored Field Artillery Battalion (155mm, self-propelled): Lieutenant Colonel Edward S. Brannigan16

486th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion (-): Lieutenant Colonel Raymond E. Dunnington17

Detachment, 3rd Ordnance (Maintenance) Battalion

Sources: Sergeant Frank Woolner, U.S. Army, and Major Murray H. Fowler, U.S. Army et al., Spearhead in the West 1941–1945: The Third Armored Division (Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Kunst und Werbedruck, 1945), 324–327; U.S. Army Center of Military History, Order of Battle of the U.S. Army—WWII—ETO—3d [sic] Armored Division (Washington, DC: U.S. Army Center of Military History, March 2001), at https://history.army.mil/documents/ETO-OB/3AD-ETO.htm, 435-439, accessed June 1, 2019; U.S. Department of War, Headquarters, 36th Armored Infantry Regiment, History of the 36th Armored infantry Regiment (Mühlheim, Germany: Headquarters, 36th Armored Infantry Regiment, July 31, 1945), 30. The war diary lays out the division task organization as of August 20, 1944.