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The III Corps (Third Corps) —nicknamed the Phantom Corps, America's Hammer, and the Counterattack Corps— is a corps of the United States Army. The III Corps is the official counteroffensive force of the U.S. Army, and it is currently headquartered at Fort Hood, Texas. Its major units are the 1st Cavalry Division and the 4th Infantry Division.
The corps was first created 16 May 1918 in France, and participated in six campaigns. It was demobilized 9 September 1919 at Camp Sherman in Ohio.
It was reconstituted 27 June 1944, and fought through Europe, first in the Northern France CampaignThe Northern France Campaign of World War II began on July 25, 1944, with General Bernard Montgomery launching Operation COBRA to break out from the Normandy beachhead, and concluded on September 14 with Belgium and most of France liberated from German ru, then the Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace , and Central Europe . It was inactivated 10 October 1946Events January January 4 Theodore Schurch becomes the last person to be executed for offences committed under the Treachery Act of 1940 January 7 Allied recognize Austrian republic with 1937 borders the country is divided into four occupation zones Januar.
It was active from 1951Events January events January 9 United Nations headquarters officially opens ( New York City). January 15 Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald," wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in We to 1959Events January-February January 1 Cultivars of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin. January 1 Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when forces of Fidel Castro advance January 2 CBS Radio cuts four soap operas: Bac, then reactivated permanently in 19611961 (As MAD Magazine pointed out on its first cover for the year) was the first "upside-down" year i. one that looked the same upside down since 1881, and the last until 6009. Events January January 1 The farthing coin, used since the 13th century, cease.
In early 2004, the corps headquarters deployed to Iraq to relieve V Corps of command responsibility for US forces in Iraq. That represented the corps' first active service deployment since 1945.