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The first chart on the US First Army shows the 3rd Armored Division in two places, under V Corps and under XIX Corps. Is that correct?

I've read elsewhere that to avoid confusion during transport, divisions were landed in the same order as they had been stationed in England, so Americans landed in the western part and British in the eastern part of Normandy. The western part was hedgerow country, unsuitable for tanks although the Americans had the stronger armored component and stronger growth potential, as you noted.

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