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Printed Letter Signed in facsimile, as Commander, 3rd Army. January 26, 1945. To General O.P.Weyland, Commanding General, XIX Tactical Air Command, forwarded by Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, Commanding 9th Air Force. 2 pp. on front and rear of single leaf.

Official bulletin distributed the day after the last major German offensive of World War II ended in enemy defeat, Patton sends "sincere appreciation and admiration...for your magnificent cooperation in the reduction of the Ardennes salient...we feel that the great successes achieved are the result of the unselfish cooperation and comradeship existing between the Air and Ground troops. We look forward to bigger and better victories in the immediate future." Vandenberg's note adds "the Air-Ground cooperation demonstrated during the Ardennes action marked a new high in welding together the combined power of the Armed Forces of the United States. In due time this combined power will destroy the enemy." And Weyland passes on the commendation "with pride" to "the planners, the controllers, the pilots, the mechanics, the cooks, and to every other man of this Command whose combined efforts made this great victory possible” and “defeated a cunning and desperate enemy. All this accomplished under the adverse conditions of a severe and bitter winter.”