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	15th Army Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 15th Army Group was an army group of the Allied forces in World War II.
		It was activated in 1943 in Algiers, North Africa, to plan the invasion of Sicily nicknamed Operation Husky.
		Its main forces for this job were the British Eighth Army and the U.S. Seventh Army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British/American_15th_Army_Group (169 words)

	Army group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An army group is a military organization (formation) consisting of several field armies, and is supposed to be self-sufficient for indefinite periods.
		An Army Group is the largest field organization handled by a single commander in modern warfare, and usually includes between 400,000 and 1,500,000 troops.
		For example in 1944–45 during the Second World War, the Southern Group of Armies (U.S. 6th Army Group) was comprised of the US Seventh Army and the French First Army; and Montgomery's 21st Army Group was comprised of the British Second Army, the Canadian First Army, and the US Ninth Army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Army_group (704 words)

	World Wars I and II
		With the collapse of the French Army in June 1940, General Chaffee's 1927 predictions of the importance of armored forces in modern warfare were confirmed.
		Courtney Hicks Hodges enlisted in the Army in 1906 and was commissioned in 1909.
		Once he was satisfied that the Army could operate in large bodies he concentrated on revising training to simulate the conditions that the Army was facing in North Africa.
	cgsc.leavenworth.army.mil /carl/resources/ftlvn/ww2.asp (5800 words)

	CSI Report #6 Larger Units: Theater Army--Army Group--Field Army
		His armies were widely dispersed, and he established an organization with two groups, thus placing an additional level of command and control between the armies and the general headquarters.
		The 15th Army Group was responsible for planning the operations allocated by AFHQ and for commanding the operations of Fifth and Eighth armies.
		The 21st Army Group Commander was also ordered to be responsible for execution of the operation, "until such time as the Supreme Allied Commander allocates an area of responsibility to the Commanding General, First Army Group." The 21st Army Group would have overall ground command in the invasion.
	www-cgsc.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/bounds/bounds.asp (18361 words)

	ipedia.com: US Fifth Army Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Fifth Army was relieved of responsibility for Cassino and the final phases of that battle saw Indian, New Zealand and finally Polish troops thrown against the fortress.
		The strategic conception of General Harold Alexander, commanding 15th Army Group was that the forces of VI Corps, coming out of Anzio would trap the retreating German forces, and leave them to be annihilated by the advancing Fifth and Eighth Armies.
		General Clark moved to command 15th Army Group, and Lieutenant General Lucian Truscott was appointed to command Fifth Army in his place.
	fav.ipedia.com /us_fifth_army.html (1215 words)

	USFA History - Early Occupation
		Seventh Army of 6th Army Group was given the primary task of penetrating the mountains and subsequently occupying the fortress area.
		Third Army, on the right flank of 12th Army Group and to the east of the Seventh, was ordered to swing to the south and advance down the Danube River toward Linz with the objective of affecting a further junction with the Russians.
		To assist the 15th Army Group in Italy and Austria, the 12th Army Group was ordered on 22 May to prepare to move two corps through the Alps into Carinthia to relieve the British.
	www.usfava.com /USFA_History1.htm (2836 words)

	Military History Online
		Once the Allied armies were well established ashore, Eisenhower relinquished responsibility for direction of the campaign to 15th Army Group commander General Alexander and his subordinates, Patton and Montgomery.
		Seventh Army was thus receiving supplies from both the west at Palermo and the south from Gela and Licata, and on August 3 a beach was opened at San Stefano, and this was used to supply the Army's advance for the next ten days.
		Following the Army's advance, new beaches were opened for supply, and these allowed the quick advance to continue in spite of the loss of road and rail facilities through bombing and enemy demolition.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /wwii/husky/postlanding.aspx?p=8 (2977 words)

	Chapter XIX Liberation of the North and Problems Not Settled by Victory
		The Fifth Army invalidated all CLN orders and decrees as of 29 May but allowed CLN's to continue functioning as "advisory bodies to Allied Military Government with respect to the problems affecting the government, economy and reconstruction of the region." With regard to disarmament, again there was no open defiance but oft-times only partial compliance.
		The groups of a thousand partisans for Milan City and 500 each for each province, which have been heretofore authorized on the condition that such partisans wore a serially numbered arm band and carried an identity card, are to be dissolved by June 7th.
		On 11th May CG Fifteenth Army Group reported to me that a Fifth Army Staff Officer had been in touch with General Doyen and that the latter acknowledges receipt of order to withdraw but is awaiting confirmation from the French Government before complying.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/wwii/civaff/ch19.htm (18831 words)

	13th Finance Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The mission of the 13th Finance Group is to ensure the financial readiness of III Corps’ soldiers.
		It provides command and control to the 15th, 215th and the 230th Finance battalions at Fort Hood, and their subordinate detachments at Fort Sill, Okla. and Fort Bliss, Texas.
		The Group also has operational control for training and contingency planning of the 1st Finance Battalion, Fort Riley, Kan.; the 4th Finance Battalion, Fort Carson, Colo.; as well as eight Reserve/National Guard finance battalions, two Reserve finance groups, and one finance command.
	www.hood.army.mil /pao/hood_files/13th_finance_group.htm (163 words)

	15th Army Group
		The 15th Army Group was activated in 1943 in Algiers, North Africa, with the responsibility of planning the invasion of Sicily.
		By mid-1944 these forces had ended the stalemates on the Gustav Line, advanced up the Liri valley, captured Rome, and pursued retreating Axis forces north across the Arno River into the northern Apennines Mountains, on the very edge of the Po Valley, in the heart of northern Italy.
		By April 1945 the superbly led and combat-hardened Allied 15th Army Group, a truly multinational force, enjoyed an overwhelming numerical superiority on the ground and in the air.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/15ag.htm (171 words)

	15th Group photo - SFC E7 photos at pbase.com
		The 15th Army Group was activated in Algiers, North Africa,
		of the British Eighth Army and the Seventh U.S. Army.
		Armies in Italy when British General Alexander was commanding.
	www.pbase.com /image/43271336 (376 words)

	PO VALLEY 1945
		To the east, British Eighth Army units were within miles of the Po River by nightfall on 23 April, with the British 6th Armored Division at Bondeno, the 8th Indian Infantry Division ten miles farther east, moving through Ferrara, and the British 56th Infantry Division nearing Polesella, another ten miles to the east.
		Since 15th Army Group plans had assumed that II Corps would be first to reach the river, the Fifth Army now had to push additional bridging for the IV Corps forward on already overcrowded roads.
		However, by April 1945 the superbly led and combat-hardened Allied 15th Army Group, a truly multinational force, enjoyed an overwhelming numerical superiority on the ground and in the air.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/brochures/po/72-33.htm (8051 words)

	Army Group
		Three interallied ground commands known as Army Groups had operational control, under SHAEF, of the British, French, and United States Armies in the European Theater--the Twinty- first Army Group, the Twelfth Army Group, and the Sixth Army Group.
		During the Cold War, integration of NATO land forces in the Central Region was effected at the national corps level by two Army Groups: Northern Army Group (NORTHAG), which included the British Army On The Rhine (BAOR), and Central Army Group (CENTAG).
		Structural changes began in June of 1993, when HQ Central Army Group (CENTAG, Heidelberg, GE) and Northern Army Group (NORTHAG, Monchengladbach, GE) were deactivated and replaced by Headquarters Allied Land Forces Central Europe (LANDCENT), which was activated in Heidelberg on 01 July 1993.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/army-group.htm (696 words)

	Units & Organizations: US (Main Menu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The 15th Army Group was the highest command in Italy and commanded the 5th US Army and 8th British Army.
		The 5th Army bore the brunt of many of the battles as the British 8th Army was tired from fighting in North Africa.
		The VI Corps was the American half of the 5th Army invasion of Italy at Salerno.
	members.aol.com /Custermen85/Units/AlliesOrg.htm (3515 words)

	Army Corps
		Concurrent with this change, instructions were received from Army Group to adjust the Division's occupational boundaries further in a move designed to reconcile unit boundaries with political boundaries to simplify military government problems.
		On June 9, Third Army was instructed by Group Headquarters to occupy, organize and govern that part of Austria that was in the 12th Army Group area effective that day.
		Under the guidance of German staff officers from the First German Army, which had been in the area at the time of the surrender, the German soldiers held in the PW enclosures were organized into companies, German officers were placed in charge and convoys were organized with the Germans using their own vehicles.
	www.usfava.com /USFA_ArmyCorps.htm (4593 words)

	KWCC Biography - Clark
		In August 1941, Clark was named assistant chief of staff for operations of the general headquarters, U.S. Army, and a month after the American entry into the war, Clark was appointed deputy chief of staff of Army Ground Forces, and less than six months later, chief of staff.
		In 1943, Clark commanded the Fifth Army in the Italian Campaign, the first to be activated in the European Theater, leading the force in the capture of Naples October 1, 1943, and Rome on June 4, 1944.
		As commander of the 15th Army Group, comprised of American and British forces, he accepted the surrender of German forces in Italy and Austria in May 1945.
	korea50.army.mil /history/biographies/clark.shtml (1773 words)

	Lone Sentry: We Were There: From Gruber to the Brenner Pass; 88th Infantry Division WWII Unit History
		On the 17th of January, General Mark W. Clark, 15th Army Group Commander, and Lt. Gen.
		On the Eighth Army and IV Corps fronts, the drive already had begun but the "Blue Devils" still had a few days of grace left.
		And brought, from a vanquished foe, tributes which were all the sweeter since most of their valorous deeds were cloaked during the push.
	www.lonesentry.com /unithistory/88thinfantry/page4.html (2576 words)

	HyperWar: US Army in WWII: American Military History [Chapter 22]
		Under Montgomery's 21 Army Group, he would concentrate his greatest resources north of the Ardennes region of Belgium along the most direct route to the Ruhr industrial region, Germany's largest complex of mines and industry.
		Bradley's 12th Army Group, meanwhile, was to make a subsidiary thrust south of the Ardennes to seize the Saar industrial region along the Franco-German frontier.
		The 21 Army Group meanwhile sealed off the Netherlands and headed toward the base of the Jutland peninsula, while the 6th Army Group turned southeastward to obviate any effort by the Nazis to make a last-ditch stand in the Alps of southern Germany and Austria.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/AMH/AMH/AMH-22.html (8968 words)

	91st Cavalry Recon Squadron
		When Combat Command B of the 1st Armored Division met British units at Protville, a main group of German forces, pressed on the west by the 1st and the 34th Divisions, was stranded in the Tebourba area.
		Among them were the commanding generals of the 5th Panzer Army, the 15th Panzer Division, and the Manteuffel Division, the artillery commander of the Afrika Korps, and the commanding general of the Luftwaffe at
		With the physical juncture of the II and VI Corps, the beachhead ceased to exist and the formerly isolated soldiers became the left flank of the Fifth Army.
	www.schweinfurt.army.mil /sites/1-91/history.htm (5361 words)

	Lyman L. Lemnitzer, General, United States Army
		In 1940, on graduating from the Army War College, he was assigned to staff duty with Coast Artillery units in the South.
		From November 1945-August 1947, he was the Army Member of the Strategic Survey Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and then Deputy Commandant of the National War College until October 1949.
		In March 1955 he was appointed Commander of U.S. Army Forces in the Far East and of the 8th Army, with the rank of General, and in June became Commander of the Far East Command and of the United Nations Command and Governor of Ryuku Island.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /lemnitz.htm (573 words)

	Anzio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The operations at Anzio were to be supported by a general 15th Army Group offensive.
		One week before the Anzio assault, the Fifth Army, consisting of the U.S. II Corps, the British 10 Corps, and the French Expeditionary Corps, would launch a massive offensive on the Gustav Line, cross the Garigliano and Rapido Rivers, strike the German Tenth Army under Lt. Gen.
		Meanwhile, Allied, British, and Commonwealth forces of the Eighth Army were ordered to break through on the Adriatic front or at least tie down German forces to prevent their transfer to the Anzio area.
	ehistory.osu.edu /wwii/books/anzio/0004.cfm (407 words)

	Sicily
		On 10th July 1943, the 8th Army landed at five points on the south-eastern tip of the island and the US 7th Army at three beaches to the west of the British forces.
		The method by which the campaign would be developed once the armies were on shore, and how the island would finally be reduced, was not decided.
		Such men are cowards and bring discredit on the army and disgrace to their comrades, whom they heartlessly leave to endure the dangers of battle while they, themselves, use the hospital as a means of escape.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWsicily.htm (2140 words)

	Mark Clark
		After the war Clark was commander of US Forces in Austria until being given command of the 6th Army in San Francisco in January 1947.
		He expected to replace Omar Bradley as Chief of Staff of the US Army but this post went to Joe L. Collins instead.
		First, he is getting command of the Fifth Army, for which he has begged and pleaded for a long time.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWclarkM.htm (728 words)

	UNT Libraries: Government Information Connection, WWII - Selected Memoirs and Papers of Notable Commanders and Leaders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Commander of U.S. II Corps, 1st Army, and 12th Army Group 1943-1945 in Africa, Sicily, and Europe; later Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff.
		Commander of U.S. 5th Army and 15th Army Group in Italy, 1943-1945.
		Commander of U.S. I Corps and 8th Army in the South Pacific 1943-1945.
	www.library.unt.edu /GovInfo/wwii/selected_memoirs.htm (425 words)

	Commanders of Italian Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1951 he was the Commandant of the Army War College.
		General Leese replaced General Montgomery as commander of the 8th Army.
		Commanding General over the British 8th Army and American 5th Army
	members.aol.com /Custermen85/Reference/Generals.htm (576 words)

	Charles Hartwell Bonesteel III, General, United States Army
		Served with G-3 (Plans) Section, 12th Army Group 1943-44
		Division Commander, 1st Cavalry Division 1957-58 Secretary of the Army
		His father, Charles Hartwell Bonesteel, Major General, United States Army, is buried nearly in Section 3 of Arlington National Cemetery.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /chbonesteel-03.htm (173 words)

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	www.cibmedia.com /unitlist-army1.htm (160 words)

	Counter Intelligence (NZ) from 15th Army Group (Italy, 1945) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Counter Intelligence (NZ) from 15th Army Group (Italy, 1945)
		Counter Intelligence Album (NZ) from 15th Army Group (Italy, 1945)
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