Commanders
The 3rd Armored Division had thirty-nine commanders over the course of its history, many of whom went on to four star rank.
- MG Alvan Cullom Gillem, Jr. (April 1941 – January 1942)
- MG Walton Harris Walker (January 1942 – August 1942)
- MG Leroy Hugh Watson (August 1942 – August 1944)
- MG Maurice Rose (August 1944 – March 1945)
- BG Doyle O. Hickey (March 1945 – June 1945)
- BG Truman Everett Boudinot (June 1945 – July 1945)
- BG Frank A. Allen, Jr. (July 1945)
- MG Robert W. Grow (July 1945 – November 1945)
- MG Ray T. Maddocks (July 1947 – April 1948)
- MG Roderick R. Allen (April 1948 – June 1950)
- BG Raymond E. S. Williamson (June 1950 – February 1951)
- MG Ira Platt Swift (February 1951 – July 1951)
- BG Arthur R. Walk (July 1951 – October 1951)
- BG Raymond E.S. Williamson (October 1951 – November 1952)
- BG John T. Cole (November 1952 – December 1952)
- MG Richard W. Stevens (December 1952 – January 1954)
- MG Gordon Byrom Rogers (January 1954 – April 1955)
- MG John Murphy Willems (April 1955 – July 1956)
- MG Robert W. Porter, Jr. (July 1956 – January 1958)
- MG Thomas Fraley Van Natta III (January 1958 – July 1959)
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- MG Frederic J. Brown (July 1959 – October 1960)
- MG Creighton Abrams (October 1960 – May 1962)
- MG John Ramsey Pugh (May 1962 – February 1964)
- MG Berton E. Spivy, Jr. (February 1964 – March 1965)
- MG Walter T. Kerwin, Jr. (March 1965 – October 1966)
- MG Welborn G. Dolvin (October 1966 – April 1968)
- MG Donald H. Cowles (April 1968 – August 1969)
- MG Morgan G. Roseborough (August 1969 – May 1971)
- MG William R. Kraft, Jr. (May 1971 – March 1973)
- MG Jonathan R. Burton (March 1973 – June 1975)
- MG Charles J. Simmons (June 1975 – November 1977)
- MG Wallace H. Nutting (November 1977 – September 1979)
- MG Walter F. Ulmer, Jr. (September 1979 – February 1982)
- MG Thurman E. Anderson (February 1982 – March 1984)
- MG Richard G. Graves (March 1984 – June 1986)
- MG Thomas N. Griffin, Jr. (June 1986 – March 1988)
- MG George Joulwan (March 1988 – July 1989)
- MG Paul E. Funk (July 1989 – April 1991)
- MG Jerry R. Rutherford (April 1991 – February 1992)
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